Senator Dino Melaye, yesterday affirmed that former governor of Kogi State and the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate in the last Saturday\u2019s inconclusive election, Prince Abubakar Audu did not loot public funds while in office.<\/p>\n
The senator representing Kogi-West while speaking during a late show on the African Independent Television described the allegations as a witch-hunt.<\/p>\n
According to Dino, \u201cHow can a man who received N17bn in less than four years steal N11bn? This was a man who paid pensioners, did not owe workers and carried out a big infrastructural development in the state. What has the EFCC been investigating since 2003? It is all politics. Audu never stole Kogi\u2019s money. This was a man who built Kogi State University, Kogi State Polytechnic, Obajana Cement Factory and signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Dangote Cement. Audu built all the institutions that exist in the state today.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the allegation that Audu was poisoned, Melaye said he would not comment on what he did not know.<\/p>\n
Melaye said, \u2018\u2018I cannot say he was poisoned. I will not say what I do not know. God is the only one who sees everything. I can only weep. For him, it was the end of a cycle.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He further stated that most of the politicians in the state were too elitist.<\/p>\n
\u201cAudu was the only politician who was down to earth in Kogi State. I was his closest political associate. He loved his people. He was a friend of the downtrodden. It will be difficult for any other governor to connect with the people like Audu did. A man who was ready to listen to bean cake sellers and cobblers was a man to be taken seriously,\u2019\u2019 Melaye added.<\/p>\n
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