Improved allocation helping Kogi pay salaries, do projects – Ododo

Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo, with members of the Arewa for Asiwaju group. Photo: Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis.

Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo, has credited the improved revenue allocation under President Bola Tinubu’s administration with enabling his government to pay workers’ salaries promptly while executing infrastructure projects across the state.

Ododo stated this on Friday during a meeting with the executive members of Arewa for Asiwaju (A4A), Kogi State Chapter, at the Government House Banquet Hall, Lokoja.

The governor said the increased revenue available to the state had strengthened his administration’s capacity to meet its financial obligations to workers without compromising infrastructure development.

He said, “We are paying salaries and still doing projects. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made it possible.

“We now have increased revenue available to the state, which has strengthened our capacity to meet our financial obligations to workers without compromising infrastructure development.”

Speaking at the meeting, the State Coordinator of A4A, Abdulkareem Mohammed, popularly known as Asuku, unveiled the group’s organisational structure and outlined its grassroots mobilisation strategy ahead of the 2027 general elections.

Asuku said the group was targeting 200 votes from each polling unit across the state, translating to 701,600 votes from Kogi’s 3,508 polling units.

He explained that A4A had established a mobilisation structure extending from the state level to individual polling units, with 10 representatives and 10 women representatives assigned to each unit.

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“We will embark on extensive grassroots engagements, moving from one local government area to another and spending days in each location to showcase the achievements of the Tinubu and Ododo administrations.

“The projects executed by the Ododo administration, with support from the Federal Government, will form a major part of our campaign message as we engage residents across the state,” he said.

He said the group’s state executive structure consists of Hon. Barikisu Ohunene Aliyu, Hon. Alfa Momoh Rabiu and Hon. Femi Stephen Owoniyi serving as deputy state coordinators for Kogi Central, East and West, respectively.

Other members include Hon. Yakubu Siaka Adabenege as Director of Finance and Resource Mobilisation; Hon. Kingsley Fanwo as Director of Communication and Media; and Ahmadu Jibril as Deputy Director of Communication and Media.

He added that the structure also has directorates covering women affairs, youth affairs, student affairs, business and professional affairs, religious affairs, traditional groups, operations and logistics, civil society, mobilisation, research and strategy, among others.

Hon. Dr Anthony Edogbo was named the State Secretary, while other directorates have designated deputy directors across the three senatorial districts.

Present at the meeting were a former Kogi State Deputy Governor and Board Member of the South East Development Commission, Chief Edward Onoja; the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo; the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Chief Ali Bello; and the Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Yusuf Umar Aliyu, among other political leaders and government officials.