Yahaya Bello is giving the impression that we elders should continue to recycle ourselves - Akpabio

Godswill Akpabio who is the Senate minority leader has taken a swipe at Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state saying he is giving the impression that old leaders deserve to be recycled with his supposedly controversial actions.

- Senator Godswill Akpabio accused Governor Yahaya Bello of stirring controversy

- He said this was a time the youths were trying to contribute to politics

- The senator said the governor was giving the impression that the old leadera should be recycled

Godswill Akpabio who is the Senate minority leader has taken a swipe at Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state saying he is giving the impression that old leaders deserve to be recycled with his actions.

The Cable reports that the Akapbio made this remark in a debate to a motion by Senator Dino Melaye who accused the Kogi governor of stirring controversy.

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Akpabio in his reaction said Bello’s behaviour was coming at a time when the youths are ready to contribute their quota to national development.

He said: “Unfortunately, it is Kogi again. And then here we are here in the senate trying to make laws to enable the youth who can vote in the election to be voted for,” he said.

“I see a very youthful governor trying to give the impression that we elders should continue to recycle ourselves because the youths are not ready. I do know that the youth are ready to contribute their own quota.

“Having been a governor before, we knew the effect of arming militia or arming youths because even after leaving office it will be difficult to retrieve those weapons.”

Meanwhile, the political crises in Kogi state have taken a new dimension with the Nigerian Senate commencing a major investigation into an allegation by Melaye that Governor Bello has been illegally arming a local vigilante group.

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Senator Dino Melaye, the representative of Kogi west, moved the motion on the floor of the upper chamber citing orders 42 and 52.

According to him, a law established by the Kogi government has given the vigilante group more power than the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) thereby reducing the powers of the latter in the state.

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Source: Naija.ng