Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello yesterday held a closed door meeting with the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for over two hours, to find a solution to the crisis in the state.The governor is at loggerheads with the state chapter of the party, which accused him of sidelining them and appointing members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into his government.
He is also accused of being behind the crisis in the House of Assembly.
Bello drove himself to the party secretariat about 12:15pm in a maroon Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), accompanied by his security details.
He moved straight to the office of the National Deputy Chairman (North), Senator Lawal Shuaibu and held a closed-door meeting with him, which lasted about two hours before meeting the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.
At the end of the meeting, the governor refused to speak with reporters, who approached him to know the outcome of his visit to the national secretariat.
The Nation learnt that the party may not be happy with Bello over his action since he was sworn in as governor.
Sources said the APC national leadership slammed him for side-lining the executives of the party in his appointments, as well as not consulting stakeholders before making his executive bills and programme.
They were said to have asked the governor to make funds available to the party for overhead and told him that he was a governor of circumstance and should utilise the opportunity to write his name in gold.
Credit: The Nation
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