Kogi youths have warned those they described as agents of destabilisation and enemies of the state to steer clear of the Government House, Lokoja, and desist from portraying the state in bad light.
The warning is coming on the heels of widespread speculations that ex-governor, Yahaya Bello, lives in the Government House, and the threat to invade the seat of power.The youths described those threatening to occupy the Kogi Government House as a faceless group of ethnic jingoists doing the bidding of embattled paymasters.
The youngsters in their thousands, who are registered members of Kogi Youths Stakeholder Forum, made the position known in a statement by their Coordinator, Comrade Tunde Muhammed, issued in Lokoja by Yunisa Idris, Yusuf Ndako, Idris Kabir, Osovehe Jimmoh, Itoba Momoh, Agali Oluwafemi, Mayowa Williams, Ocholi Idris, Hassan Gambo and Oloruneffa Jegede.
“Our patience has been tested enough, no one should try anything to undermine democracy in Kogi State, or the consequences will not be palatable. They will be shocked,” they warned. The youths, while condemning the “talk of invasion being spread by political actors and echoed by ethnocentric agents of destruction in the state as suspicious and an attack on democracy,” cautioned that further oppression would be met with stiff resistance.
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