Edward David Onoja, Chief of Staff to the Kogi State
Governor, Yahaya Bello, has labelled Dino Melaye a “failed, rudderless Senator”
and “the Regret of Kogi”.
Onoja said this in a statement on Monday wherein he reacted
to a trending video of an interview posted by a television station under a
banner headline he considered “utterly irresponsible”.
Onoja said the station was clearly working against the
administration of Yahaya Bello.
“Their unfortunate shenanigans have become comic relief
around here. If we cough and they declare there is a tuberculosis pandemic in
the state, we have learnt to take a sip water, smile and continue with what we
are doing,” he said.
“Were it for them alone, I would not be making this
rejoinder. But when our failed, rudderless Senator, the one we all know as the
Regret of Kogi, who has no constituency office and who only visits home as
elections near to pick fights, takes up on that video and begins to wax songs
and dance naked in the marketplace with it, well, then, we must reply.
“Men may sympathise with a madman on account of his
insanity, but if he starts trying to burn down the village, they must restrain
him – for his health, and others’.
“It is important to understand the positions I espoused on
that brief call. My reference to Kogi workers who are owed 12 months of
salaries was not directed to those workers who were cleared in the first or
second stages of our Staff Screening and Verification Exercise because those
ones started receiving payments as soon as they were cleared.
“I meant those who were screened out by the earlier
Screening Committees for one reason or the other. Those among them now cleared
after the Kogi Stakeholders Congress which ended around 8pm last night are the
ones still having delayed outstanding of up to 12 months some cases. However,
the Government has promised to do everything within her powers to pay them in
full this month.
(Daily Post)
