Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo, says improved revenue allocation under President Bola Tinubu’s administration has enabled his government to pay workers’ salaries promptly while executing infrastructure projects across the state.
The Governor 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.
He said the increased revenue available to the state had strengthened his administration’s capacity to meet its salary obligations while sustaining infrastructure development.
“We are paying salaries and still doing projects. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made it possible,” the governor said.
Speaking at the meeting, the State Coordinator of A4A, Abdulkareem Mohammed, popularly known as Asuku, presented the group’s organisational structure and outlined its mobilisation plans ahead of the 2027 general elections.
He said the group was targeting 200 votes from each polling unit across the state, amounting to 701,600 votes from Kogi’s 3,508 polling units.
According to him, the group had established a grassroots mobilisation structure from the state level to individual polling units, with 10 representatives and 10 women representatives assigned to each unit.
Asuku said the group would embark on grassroots engagements across the 21 local government areas to highlight 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.
On the group’s leadership structure, he named Hon. Barikisu Ohunene Aliyu, Hon. Alfa Momoh Rabiu and Hon. Femi Stephen Owoniyi as Deputy State Coordinators for Kogi Central, East and West, respectively.
Other officials 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.
Asuku 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, and research and strategy.
Hon. Dr Anthony Edogbo was named State Secretary, while other directorates have designated deputy directors across the three senatorial districts.
Those present at the meeting included former Kogi State Deputy Governor and Board Member of the South East Development Commission, Chief Edward Onoja; Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo; Chief of Staff to the Governor, Chief Ali Bello; and Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Yusuf Umar Aliyu, among other political leaders and government officials.
