BREAKING NEWS, Politics
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ABUBAKAR Audu, a two-time governor of Kogi State, has emerged the All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate for the November 21, governorship election. In a keenly contested primary election held on Saturday, August 29, in Lokoja, the state capital, Audu defated 27 other aspirants by polling 1,109 votes.
Coming distant second in the poll was Yahaya Bello, who polled 703. Senator Abatemi Usman came third with 400 votes.
There were 3,458 delegates, but 3,044 were screened and accredited for the primary election under a seven-man Electoral Committee led by Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State.
In his acceptance speech, Audu vowed to transfer power to the central zone of the state at the end of his tenure if he wins the general election. He promised to build on the success of his past administrations, stressing that infrastructure and human capital development would be the priorities of his administration.
Audu who was governor of the state between 1991 to 1992 and 1999 to 2003 on the platform of the defunct National Republican Convention, NRC and the defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, respectively, later made three unsuccessful attempt to stage a comeback to Lugard House.
He called on all who contested with him to join hands with him to liberate the state from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, administration in the state, saying the state was at the verge of imminent collapse.
He insisted that only the APC government that could bring the desired positive change to the people and reverse the present “negative trend which has hampered its progress.”
In his speech, Bello, the runner up, pledged to work with Audu to deliver the state for the APC. “Abubakar Audu is my political father. I’m a loyal son and I want him to groom me for the next four years for the challenges ahead,” he said.
While declaring the result, el-Rufai, chief returning officer of the APC delegate election, disclosed that the outcome of the election was a reflection of the change agenda of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
He, therefore, appealed to the aspirants to work together as a team to wrest power from the PDP, assuring them that APC has all it takes to win the governorship election.
— Aug 31, 2015 @ 14:20 GMT
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