Kogi 2023: New Lokoja Will Emerge In 4 Years – Melaye

Governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Dino Melaye, has committed to the reconstruction of the state within four years should he be elected governor.

Dino Melaye asserted that both the Ajaokuta Steel Company and the Itakpe Iron Ore Mining Company will experience significant growth for economic prosperity if he secures the position of governor in the state.

Melaye made these declarations during the party’s concluding campaign rally held in Lokoja on Thursday.

“In 4 years, we are going to build the new Lokoja. York was in existence before New York came to be. Zealand was there before New Zealand came. Delhi was there before New Delhi came.

“So by the grace of God, if you voted me in as governor, in 4 years, we are going to build new Lokoja.

“Kogi is a strategic state. It is the richest state in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We are blessed with mineral resources from uranium, to titanium, to lithium, to gold, to crude oil.

“It’s unfortunate that the only mineral that has been tapped out of all these numerous resources is limestone. We are going to tap the rest. We will explore them. We will develop them. We will commercialise them,” he said.

Melaye said he was a well-trained student of former Vice-President Abubakar Atiku.

“We will distribute them. And we will improve our IGR for development of the state and better standard of living,” he said.

The PDP Candidate said that he was the most educated, experienced, and exposed among the 18 Candidates taking part in the poll and called for massive votes from the residents.

Also speaking, Atiku described Melaye as the most qualified candidate to lead Kogi and deliver it from poverty and backwardness.

Atiku called on the people of Kogi to rally around Melaye on Saturday and give him blog votes to catalyse the state’s liberation from the poisonous APC administration of Gov. Yahaya Bello.