Old Boys of Dekina Government Secondary School now Dekina Science Secondary School following a clinical analysis and assessment of the inroads made in leadership of Kogi state over the last six years has unanimously endorsed the presidential candidature of Kogi state Executive Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello for the 2023 race.
The home base chairman of Dekina Old Boys Association (DOBA), Mr. Joseph Attah, and the present Principal of the School, Onalo Abimaje made their positions known when they led others, prominent members of the Association, on a solidarity visit to the State Auditor General, Alhaji Yakubu Yusuf Okala and an ‘alumnus’ of the school in his office Lokoja, the state capital.
They opined that the Governor during the period in focus has demonstrated absolute capacity of providing leadership as his administration has been able to tame the wave of insecurity and brought it to a minimal level.
They also identified the immeasurable and gargantuan achievements recorded in the state under the watch of the Governor to include including, including concrete infrastructural development spread across the three senatorial districts which are empirical for all eyes to observe.
DOBA noted with admiration that Governor Bello’s huge financial investment in the education sector has made it easier for youth to acquire knowledge and the appointments given to some of their illustrious members especially Alhaji Yakubu Yusuf as the State Auditor General, he stressed are some of the attributes that have endeared Alhaji Yahaya Bello to them.
His words: We’re going to mobilize our members worldwide to support your presidential bid comes 2023, as a show of appreciation to your developmental strides in Kogi state”, Joseph Attah said.
”The School requested government’s assistance in the areas of the provision of parameters fencing of the school from land grabbers and help to bring to life the broken down school bus”.
In a prompt reaction to their statement, Alhaji Yakubu Yusuf Okala applauded the DOBA delegation for the encomiums poured on his Principal and the political leader of the state, Alhaji Yahaya Bello asserting that their clean bill of health and endorsement is a welcome development.
Okala who disclosed that the DOBA endorsement of the governors will not be taken for granted said he is not unaware of the powers of Old Boys and Schoolmates in the angle of mobilization and echoed that he got to his present position because he was a University course-mate of Alhaji Yahaya Bello at the Ahmed Bello University, Zaria.
X-raying the numerous accomplishments Kogi state and its people will gain when Governor Yahaya Bello emergences as President, that the gigantic Ajaokuta Steel company laying wasting would be brought to life, existing ailing Federal road Projects cutting across the State and the exploration and exploitation of the solid mineral deposits sited in the state will be revived while Kogi citizens will occupy more strategic Federal government offices, Governor Yahaya Bello as President,Okala disclosed.
He assured the visiting Dekina Old Boys Association of the readiness and resolved of the present administration under the watch of the results-oriented and amiable leadership of Alhaji Yahaya Bello to fence the entire school premises against land encroachment, while he will personally make funds available for the repair of the school’s broken down bus.
”Governor Bello’s passion for education, realizing its significance as a potent tool for societal growth and development, established three pilot colleges, one in each of the three senatorial districts. I am happy to disclose to you that the Ajiolo Ajigbome community in Dekina local government area is hosting Kogi eastern senatorial district one”.
”Government’s decision for the setting up the schools across the state is to provide manpower needs and serve as raw materials to feed the newly established Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTEC), Osara, Kogi state.”
