Immediate past Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. (Prince) Matthew Kolawole has felicitated with and congratulated His Excellency, Alhaji Yahaya Bello CON, Executive Governor of Kogi State on the auspicious occasion of his 48th birthday celebration today.

Matthew Kolawole disclosed this in a press statement he personally signed by himself and made available to newsmen in Lokoja.

According to him it is heartwarming to celebrate a great personality, an icon, a dependable politician with strong character who has for long distinguished and carved a niche for himself in not only Kogi state but the entire country.

He described the Governor as his mentor, benefactor and political godfather who made him succeed politically without considering his inadequacies, prayed that God Almighty will continue to with him and his family.

While wishing him many more years in good health, prosperity, noted that in a short while he will still have the opportunity to stair the ship of the country one day,