A video of supposed supporters of embattled former Governor Yahaya Bello performing rituals to ‘prevent’ him from being arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives has surfaced on social media.
X user, Imran Muhammad, who shared the video online, wrote:
In the video, the supporters could be heard making chants in Igbira language.
Bello, who left office as governor on January 27, 2024, is facing 19 counts of money laundering at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
In the charges, EFCC accused Bello, his nephew Ali Bello; Dauda Suleiman and Abdulsalam Hudu (said to still be at large) of conspiring to misappropriate over N80 billion of Kogi State money.
Earlier on Tuesday, an angry woman threw caution to the wind, as she rained curses on Yahaya Bello, while a convoy of cars drove out of the Government House in Lokoja.
Though it could not be ascertained whether the former governor was in the convoy, the aggrieved woman who is apparently a civil servant, was seen in a video calling Bello despicable names and laying curses on him.
She lamented and claimed that the civil servants are owed an accumulated seven years salary while Bello was spending State funds on his family.
The woman’s reaction may not be unconnected with a revelation by the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, who alleged that Bello withdrew $720,000 from the State government’s account to pay his child’s school fee.
Another X user with the handle @PureStanley1, who captured the lone woman’s protest in a video, wrote:
“According to this woman, Yahaya Bello owed her and her fellow government workers 7 yrs salary.
“He used their 7yrs salaries to pay $720k for his son’s school fees.
“This is eviI. For the sake of this “Woman in the video” pick Yahaya Bello up and stop playing hide and seek with him.”