The All Progressives
Congress will on Monday commence the screening of its Kogi State governorship
aspirants. So, far 27 aspirants have obtained the party’s expression of
interest forms from the APC’s national secretariat in Abuja. With the number of
aspirants, the party had raked in N148m from the sales of the expression of
interest forms, which costs N5.5m each. The aspirants include a former
Kogi State Governor, Abubakar Audu; James Ocholi (SAN), Alhaji Yahaya Bello,
Senator Nicholas Ugbane, Sani Shuaibu, Suleiman Baba Ali, Air Vice Marshall
Saliu Atawodi, Muhammad Abdullahi, Senator Nuruddeen Usman, and Hajiya Hadiza
Ibrahim. They also include the veteran journalist and one of the founding
fathers of Newswatch Magazine, Mr. Yakubu Muhammad, Chief Clarence Olafemi, Mr.
Suleiman Abutu, Mr. Sunday Ejibo, Suleiman Ipinmisho, and Dr. Tim Diche. Others
are Mr. Habeeb Yakeen, Rotimi Obadofin, Babatunde Irukera, Mr. Olusola
Oluwaranti, Dr. Onukaba Adinoyi, Aliyu Zakari, Senator Alex Kadiri, Alhaji
Abubakar Umar, Idris Kashim and Dr. Sanusi Abubakar. One of the
aspirants, Shuaibu, while addressing journalists in Abuja, said the Igala
axis of Kogi State should not be blamed for the underdevelopment of the state. He
said it was incumbent on the citizenry of the state to vote into power persons
with the exposure and competence, who could rescue the state from its pitiable
state.
He said, “Kogi state
is backward today not because it doesn’t have the right calibre of persons to
take it out of the woods. I have heard a section of our citizenry say the
problem lies with power shift; that the state is backward because my Igala
people have been administering it without tangible results for all to see. “I
beg to differ on this proposition. For me, such talks is a creation of the
opposition Peoples Democratic Party. The PDP has a hand in the backwardness of
the state because for the past 12 years, it has produced the governors that
brought the state to its knees.”
Has laoreet percipitur ad. Vide interesset in mei, no his legimus verterem. Et nostrum imperdiet appellantur usu, mnesarchum referrentur id vim.
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