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He said his administration was not an auction house.

Special Adviser to the Governor on Media Jacob Edi told The Nation on the phone that the allegation by the APC Chairman, Alhaji Haddy Ametuo, was untrue and an attempt to heat up the polity.

Ametuo alleged that the outgoing governor attempted to auction government property and award phony contracts on the eve of his departure.

He warned government appointees and civil servants against aiding such alleged action.

But Edi said the APC chairman was playing to the gallery by making a wild and an unsubstantiated allegation. He challenged him to substantiate his claim.

Said he: “We want to react to the story published in The Nation of January 23. The allegation contained in the story, among others, was that the governor is auctioning government property at a ridiculous price. This is totally non-existent.

“The Kogi State government, under Governor Idris Wada, is not an auction house. It is ridiculous for anybody, in the name of wanting to play to the gallery, to make wild and spurious allegations.

“To say that money is being squandered is not true. Everybody knows that salaries have not been paid in the state in the last three months because the allocation is not adequate.

“I don’t know where they got the information from that money is being squandered. We challenge them that rather than run to the press to make spurious allegations, they should come out with facts and figures.

“Our advice to the APC is that rather than cause crisis in the polity, what they should do is to concentrate on making sure that the illegality that is about to happen by swearing-in a governor, who went into an election without a valid deputy as stipulated by the law, is addressed. We hereby deny the allegation.”

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