A former member of the Kogi State Home of Meeting, Hon. Abidemi Adebola, who represented Yagba West, has asserted that Governor Usman Ododo’s bid for a second time period is doomed from the outset.
Naija Information studies that Adebola made this assertion on his social media web page on Sunday, stressing that the ruling social gathering is not going to be permitted to rework the state right into a banana republic.
The previous lawmaker’s remarks had been in response to a extensively circulated video clip that includes the earlier Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, who was selling his successor’s re-election marketing campaign.
“The second-term agenda is lifeless on arrival. You’ll not flip Kogi right into a banana state,” Adebola wrote on his Fb web page.
In the meantime, a Justice of the Peace Court docket in Lokoja, Kogi State, has dominated in favour of the prosecution’s request to remand Austin Okai over allegations of cyberstalking and prison defamation in opposition to Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo.
The Division of State Providers (DSS) sought the court docket’s approval to detain Okai whereas investigations proceed, citing the necessity to adjust to Nigeria’s Prison Justice System, which prohibits the detention of an accused particular person past 48 hours with out court docket approval.
Delivering the ruling on Friday, Justice of the Peace Mobah Abdullahi of Chief Justice of the Peace Court docket 1, Lugard Court docket, Lokoja, granted the prosecution’s request and ordered Okai’s remand on the Federal Correctional Heart, Kabba. The case was adjourned to March 13, 2025.
Okai, a former Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) candidate for Dekina/Bassa Federal Constituency within the 2023 normal election, is dealing with trial over a social media submit wherein he alleged that Governor Ododo misappropriated billions of naira meant for Native Authorities Councils and state businesses.
Naija Information recall that armed safety operatives stormed the residence of Okai in Abuja on Wednesday morning and took him away.
Okai, a recognized opposition determine, has continuously spoken out in opposition to the administration’s insurance policies and governance.
