Reports on cabinet dissolution false, misleading – Bello’s spokesman

Director General, Media and Publicity to Governor Yahaya Bello
of Kogi State, Mr Kingsley Fanwo has dismissed reports credited to
him in some newspapers and online platforms that he confirmed the
sack and reinstatement of cabinet members and Local Government
Administrators in the State.

The Governor’s spokesperson, who reacted to the well circulated
stories Monday in Lokoja, said the whole news was a “storm in a tea
cup created by unprofessional reportage”.

Fanwo said: “The meeting was supposed to be a parley between the
Governor and his appointed officials to fashion the way forward for
the state. Prior to the meeting, some papers have speculated that
the Governor was going to dissolve his cabinet and sack the LGA
administrators.

“At the beginning of the meeting, a directive to Commissioners
and Administrators to submit their keys to the SSG was misconstrued
to mean a sack. Meanwhile, the intent was to take the vehicles to
Coscharis for servicing.

“I want to set the record straight here that the Governor didn’t
announce any sack nor reinstatement. So anyone who broke the news
of the sack and reinstatement committed an error.

“After the meeting, there was nothing basically to report to the
Media. Journalists were not even invited to the meeting. It is
therefore embarrassing to me for some journalists to claim I
briefed the media after the meeting. The report is false and
malicious. The public should dismiss such”.

Fanwo said the Governor wouldn’t have needed a meeting to
dissolve his cabinet if there was any need for that, “It is normal
for anyone to think the directive to submit keys for servicing was
an euphemism for sack. But by the time the Governor took over
proceedings, it was clear that nothing of such happened and there
was no briefing after the meeting”, he said.

Director General, Media and Publicity to Governor Yahaya Bello
of Kogi State, Mr Kingsley Fanwo has dismissed reports credited to
him in some newspapers and online platforms that he confirmed the
sack and reinstatement of cabinet members and Local Government
Administrators in the State.

The Governor’s spokesperson, who reacted to the well circulated
stories Monday in Lokoja, said the whole news was a “storm in a tea
cup created by unprofessional reportage”.

Fanwo said: “The meeting was supposed to be a parley between the
Governor and his appointed officials to fashion the way forward for
the state. Prior to the meeting, some papers have speculated that
the Governor was going to dissolve his cabinet and sack the LGA
administrators.

“At the beginning of the meeting, a directive to Commissioners
and Administrators to submit their keys to the SSG was misconstrued
to mean a sack. Meanwhile, the intent was to take the vehicles to
Coscharis for servicing.

“I want to set the record straight here that the Governor didn’t
announce any sack nor reinstatement. So anyone who broke the news
of the sack and reinstatement committed an error.

“After the meeting, there was nothing basically to report to the
Media. Journalists were not even invited to the meeting. It is
therefore embarrassing to me for some journalists to claim I
briefed the media after the meeting. The report is false and
malicious. The public should dismiss such”.

Fanwo said the Governor wouldn’t have needed a meeting to
dissolve his cabinet if there was any need for that, “It is normal
for anyone to think the directive to submit keys for servicing was
an euphemism for sack. But by the time the Governor took over
proceedings, it was clear that nothing of such happened and there
was no briefing after the meeting”, he said.