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| Yahaya Bello. Governor of Kogi State. |
My
Dear Kogites,
It
gives me great joy to welcome everyone to this New Year and I thank God
Almighty for keeping us alive and healthy to witness it. 2020 is also the
beginning of a new decade commencing today, being Wednesday, the 1st of
January, 2020 and ending on Monday, the 31st day of December, 2029, making it a
compelling point to set long term personal and state development goals.
Even
as I thank God for the life and wellbeing of each Kogite who has crossed over
into this New Year, I also remember with fondness and gratitude to God those
who could not make it, but whose lives were well lived and their legacy
enduring. I pay particular tribute to Hajia Rabiat Bello, my beloved sister who
passed on at 59 years of age on Monday, 23rd December, 2019 after a protracted
illness. I pray the Almighty God to grant her and other deceased Kogites
eternal rest.
2019
will go down in history as the year in which we came together as a people like
never before to break down the strong barriers of ethnicity, religion and class
differentiation which divided us for so long and slowed our progress. These
walls of partition were built and patronised in the past and engendered
discrimination. They were used to make sure that a man's merit took a back seat
to parochial and unprofitable considerations and were cogs in the wheels of our
advancement as a state.
This
is why our choices in the 2019 General Elections and in the November 16 Kogi
State Gubernatorial Elections were direct answers to long-standing existential
questions about the direction our state will take as we move into a rapidly
changing future. The results of those elections were truly historic as they
highlighted our collective commitment to pursue progress over conflict and
unity instead of sectionalism.
Even
though my Administration has worked hard over the last 4 years to achieve this
result, I still remain indebted to Kogites for making me the arrowhead of a new
era in which Igala, Ebira, Okun and all the other ethnic nationalities in Kogi
State proved that tribe, religion and class cannot be the worth of a man.
Together, we heralded the New Kogi we want to bequeath to posterity as one
characterised by equity and justice, unity, peace and progress. I solemnly
promise to spend the next four years strengthening and advancing these precious
values.
There
is no doubt that 2020 is indeed a new beginning for us as a state and people.
On the 27th day of January, 2020 I shall, by the grace of God, take the Oath of
Office as the 5th Executive Governor of Kogi State, and begin a second term in
Office. It shall remain the principal preoccupation of my new administration to
bring revitalised energy to bear in delivering refocused governance in Kogi
State for the next four years.
Our
administration through the help of God Almighty and your patience and support
will continue to address all of the issues which bother you including
insecurity, infrastructural decay, prompt payment of emoluments to civil
servants, problems of unemployment, healthcare and education, among others. In
our second term in office we are also going to pay greater attention to human
capital development by investing more in training our people for enhanced
relevance in a technologically evolving future.
It
is therefore with gratitude to God that I once again welcome the good people of
Kogi State to the year 2020. We undertake to do our very best to make it a most
prosperous and progressive one for all of us by working hard and smart for you
in government.
Happy
New Year.
To
God be the Glory!
YAHAYA
BELLO
Governor
of Kogi State
Government
House
Lokoja.
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