Improved allocation helping Kogi pay salaries, do projects – Ododo

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Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo, says improved revenue allocation under President Tinubu’s administration is helping his government pay salaries and do pr Read More:…

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.

“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.

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