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Kogi Poll: UPC Candidate Denies Stepping Down For Bello

November 9, 2019 4:33 pm

Dr Sunday Abuh, candidate of the United Peoples’ Congress (UPC), in the Nov 16 Kogi governorship election, has distanced himself from claims that he had stepped down from the race and endorsed All Progressives Congress’s Yahaya Bello.

Mr Moses Damisa, UPC Chairman in Kogi, had told newsmen on Friday that Abuh had stepped down for Gov Bello, adding that the party’s structure had been collapsed into Bello’s structures.

Damisa urged UPC supporters to vote for Bello, hinging his stance on allegations that Abuh was “not carrying the party along in his campaigns ahead of the election”.

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Bello Receives Boost As PDP Chieftains Defect To APC

November 8, 2019 3:21 am

The candidature of Governor Yahaya Bello and his deputy, Chief Edward Onoja, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) received a boost on Wednesday at Insalu, the headquarters of Yagba East Local Government Area, as the former acting governor, Chief Clarence Olafemi and hundreds of PDP members in the federal constituency renounced their membership and defected to the APC.

At the APC’s rally held in Insalu for the Yagba Federal Constituency, the former acting governor and Director General, Abubakar Ibro Gubernatorial Campaign Council, 2019, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olafemi, former Commissioner for Water Resources, Osanusi, former House of …

Igbo Community Living In Kogi Backs Bello Re-Election Bid

October 23, 2019 2:36 pm

The Igbo People in the central senatorial district of Kogi State have after their emergency meeting have unanimously endorsed Governor Yahaya Bello for the second term in office.

The socio-cultural organisation in its resolution said it had no alternative but to give massive support for the re-election of the governor because he had achieved so much in his first term

Speaking with our correspondent on phone, the president-general of the group, Chief Joseph Anikwe, said aside from the transformation of the state which the governor had carried out, he had also done well in the area of security.

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Amid Non Endorsement, Audu’s Wife Berates Governor Bello

October 23, 2019 3:03 am

• ‘We are collaborating to avert violence, rigging’

At a time faction of the Kogi State executive chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) distanced itself from the purported endorsement of Governor Yahaya Bello, the wife of one of the disqualified gubernatorial aspirants, Mr. Mustapha Mona Audu, Zahra, yesterday, regretted that the governor was not canvassing for votes the same way President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo did during the 2015 and 2019 polls.

It would be recalled that the Kogi APC faction led by the state secretary, Salam Adejo, addressed a press conference in Abuja, where they denied …

2020 Budget Will Be Difficult To Implement – Bello

October 22, 2019 12:56 am

Mustapha Bello was Commissioner for Resource Development, Katsina State, and one of the commissioner-nominees by Governor Aminu Bello Masari, in this interview, he said the 2020 budget recently presented to the National Assembly would be challenging to implement, even up to 50 percent.

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Nomination

Any politician, either in appointive or elective position, is privileged to serve the people and it comes with a lot of responsibilities. When I heard the news, I did self- reflection and I realized that I have to do more to help deliver on the Governor Bello Aminu’s campaign promises to the people of …