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By Bushrah Yusuf-Badmus Ilorin, Jan. 26, 2021 Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly, Mathew Kolawole, says Gov. Yahaya Bello’s insistence that COVID-19 was a ruse was to ensure that the virus did not set the state’s economy backward. He said in Ilorin on Tuesday that: “it is not that the governor is not accepting the fact that there is a virus called Covid-19. “He just wants us to know it is an advancement of malaria which is not really a big deal. “That is why Kogi has refused to lockdown ever since the emergence of the virus because we don’t want what will negate our economy the...

By Abayomi Adeshida, Abuja The Governor Yahaya Bello candidacy in the 2023 general elections has been described as a soft sell by the Kogi State House of Assembly due to the youthfulness of the governor and his advantageous position due to the fact that the North Central Region of the country has never produced a President for Nigeria. These assertions were made in Abuja over the weekend by the Deputy Speaker, Kogi State House of Assembly who fielded questions from reporters after he bagged an anti-corruption award by he Mitchelle Youth Initiative For Sustainable Development (MYISD) at the Co...