Kogi: Ex ED Rural Electrification Agency, Ohiare vows to sustain Bello legacies

By Ikechukwu Okaforadi

Immediate past Executive Director of Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Sanusi Ohiare, has said his mission is to sustain and build on the legacies achieved by the incumbent Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, whom he said has achieved a lot of meaningful development in the history of Kogi.
During his formal declaration of intention to contest the Kogi guber, Ohiare, who resigned his position to contest the governorship election, said given his age, experience and exposure, he is most qualified to succeed Governor Bello.
“Kogi has made tremendous progress under the dexterous leadership of H.E. Yahaya Adoza Bello, who became governor of Kogi at the age of 40, and widely opened the doors for youth and women emancipation in politics and governance over the last 7 years.
“Under Alhaji Yahaya Bello, Kogi state has inched closer to a more perfect union, given the prevalence of ethnic divides before he assumed office in 2016; which is evidenced in the current dimension of the Kogi race for governorship, where voters are no longer considering your ethnicity or religion, but researching on your person, character, antecedents and capacity to deliver.
“Kogi has also witnessed relative peace, stability and massive infrastructural development in the areas of Education, Health, Roads, Bridges and Power, to mention a few, under our amiable leader, Alhaji Yahaya Bello.
“Therefore, the challenge before us is how to sustain and build on the great works of his Excellency, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, and who’s best equipped to succeed him”, he said.
He called on Nigerian youths to be a generation that reshapes Kogi to compete favourably, through digital innovation, amongst the committee of states in Nigeria.
While charging the youths to rise up and join him in sustaining and build on the legacy of Governor Yahaya Bello in Education, Healthcare, infrastructure and security, he said “Let us create the enabling environment for Kogi to attract huge investments like we did at the Rural Electrification Agency.
“Let us partner with the private sector and welcome them to Kogi, to help us create jobs with better pay for our youths.
Let us make education more affordable and skill acquisition readily available for our youths.
“Let us partner with the Federal Government to build an inland port in Lokoja build rain lines connecting the North, build an airport, rehabilitate more roads and build newer ones, and effectively, make Kogi the Logistics hub of this nation.
“Let us democratize prosperity, by creating an environment where hardwork and innovation is rewarded, and indolence and rent seeking has no place. Let us be the generation that ends poverty in Kogi State. Let us be the generation that puts Kogi on the map for clean, renewable energy and alternative fuels.
“Let us turn our perennial flooding and other associated global warming crisis into an opportunity for innovation, tourism, job creation, and an incentive for businesses.
Let us join hands, rise up to the occasion and Vote for me as Governor of Kogi State to lead this transformational leadership for the next generation, and I assure you that together, we would make future generations proud of all we would achieve”, he said.