Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, on Wednesday, pledged to revive the state economy and bring it to an enviable height within four years.
Melaye disclosed this at a media interactive
Melaye, a governorship aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said the state was blessed with abundant resources but regretted the pervading poverty and penury owing to maladministration and widespread corruption.
“In four years, we will revive the economy of Kogi and the state will become the envy of others. I have gone round the world and I am sure that I have the necessary capacity and exposure to achieve this.
“I am talking about Kogi State and the generations yet unborn. Let us have public nursery schools, develop education, health and other core sectors to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor, and restore the middle class.
“The paradox of Kogi is that in spite of our abundance, we are poor. Kogi is too rich to be poor. We have to prepare our youths for the future through ICT. Today, ideas have overtaken oil.
“We are focused and intellectually mobile with vision and mission to drive the process.
“I will operate Kogi like an independent country. Kogi occupies 30,354 square kilometres of land, with a population of about 4.7 million people,” he said.
The senator, who disclosed that he would contest the presidency of Nigeria in the next eight years, stressed that his governorship aspiration was divine.
“I am an emissary sent to emancipate the people of Kogi State from economic cowards and financial scavengers,” he declared.
