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Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi, visited President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja on Monday over the flood problem in the state.

The governor disclosed this to state house correspondents after a private meeting with the president.

He said over 10 local government areas that have been sacked by the flood.

While appreciating the efforts of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Bello said more needs to be done to bring succour to his people.

“As usual I came to brief Mr. President on situation report and the happenings in my state periodically,” he said.

“I am sure you are all aware of the flood problem that is happening all over the country and Kogi is worst hit being the confluence state, confluence of the two rivers.

“So, we are worst hit and I needed to come and present the report to him myself. Even though I sincerely appreciate Mr President for deploying relevant agencies like NEMA and all the security agencies to come to our aid.

“As I speak to you, NEMA is on their way to Lokoja to access the level of damage and we received substantial amount of relief materials so far, it is not enough. I need to present the report to him as well and also to tell him about the security of the state and how we are doing.

“We are doing very well and I thank all the security agencies who have been assisting us to make sure we curb insecurity in the state. Do these are the issues that brought me to come and explain to Mr. President.”

Commenting on the 2019 polls, Bello said in Kogi, Buhari will get double the votes he had in 2015.

The governor said because of his leadership style, more people have joined the Kogi All Progressives Congress (APC).

He also boasted that the APC will have a clean sweep in Kogi in 2019.

“You can see that Mr. President is good to go. I want to assure Nigerians that the vote for Mr. President in 2019 is going to double that of 2015,” he said.

“In my own state, I can assure you, take my words, we are going to have all the 25 house of assembly members, all the nine House of Representatives members and all the three senators for APC in this 2019 election.

“We did it in all other states and in my state you can see in the last by-election the gap when the election was conducted in 2015 between the APC winner and the PDP was just about 7,000, but in this last by-election, we doubled the gap, so that is an indication.

“By my style of leadership in Kogi state, we met Kogi state house of assembly, APC in minority, we have overwhelming majority today, we have less than 85,000 registered in Kogi state for APC, as at today we have over a million membership in the state.”

Bello said he was at the villa to brief the president about the flood that has displaced thousands of people.