Kogi guber election: APC, PDP, SDP battles to win
In preparation for the November 11 governorship poll in Kogi State leaders and chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC; the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; and the Social Democratic Party, PDP, weekend, have boasted over their chances of winning.
Governor Yahaya Bello and his commissioners, at the Third GYB Seminar for Nigeria’s Political and Crime Correspondents/Editors in Abuja, said with the achievements of the APC in the last seven and half years and the capacity of its candidate, Alhaji Ahmed Ododo, the party would record landslide victory in the election.
In a statement by his Spokesman, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, the governor said “Kogites know that when PDP was in office, their lives were better than now. Their business concerns were doing well, their salaries were paid in full and things generally moved smoothly.
In like manner, the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Governorship Candidate, Alhaji Muritala Yakubu Ajaka, popularly known as Muri, said he has absolute confidence in the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deliver a transparent election, and vowed to liberate the state, if elected.
Also speaking at the event, the secretary of the national campaign council, Senator Biodun Olujimi, said the people of Ekiti State share close affinities with Kogi West and it is their great desire to see PDP restored to power in the state
