Kogi state governor Alhaji Yahaya Bello has denied that he planned to relocate the bio-ethanol plant from Alape area in Kogi-west to the central, describing the news as “totally false.”
Bello stated this Friday in Lokoja, while receiving a delegation of traditional rulers and other stakeholders from the seven local government areas of Kogi West Senatorial District.
“Government with its focus on human capital development majorly through the agricultural sector was proposing 500,000 hectares of cassava plantation which would be divided into ten colonies of 50,000 hectares that would be spread across the three senatorial district of the state.
“And each of the colony would have bio-ethanol plant, starch manufacturing plant, garri processing plant, cassava pellets plant and cassava leaves plant which would exist in not less than 15 local government areas of the state,” he said.
Also speaking, the Obaro of Kabba, Oba Solomon Dele Owoniyi, said the governor had done a lot in his first term and that there was no need to change a horse in the midstream.
Earlier, the special adviser to the governor on local government and chieftaincy affairs, Engr. Abubakar Ohere, said there were correspondences and agitations from the people of Kogi Central urging the governor to continue for another four years to enable him to consolidate on his achievements.
Ohere said the people from the 57 wards in the district including traditional rulers, opinion moulders and leaders, women and youth groups also urged the governor to “go on” and pledged their allegiance.
