Lokoja – A former governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Abubakar Audu, on Sunday emerged the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the governorship election slated for Nov. 21.
Audu got the party’s ticket by scoring 1, 109 votes in the primary held in Lokoja on Saturday defeating the other 27 other aspirants that contested against him.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Audu was first governor of Kogi between January 1992 and November 1993 , and he was also the governor between May 29, 1999 and May 29, 2003.
NAN correspondent that covered the primary reports that voting at the party’s primary to pick the governorship candidate of the APC commenced on Saturday in Lokoja at about 9:55 p.m .
It was preceded by the accreditation of 3,600 delegates from the 21 local government areas of the state.
Twenty-seven out of the 28 aspirants, including a lady, had earlier took turns to address the delegates.
NAN also reports that security around and within the venue of the primary was tight under the supervision of the outgoing state Commissioner of Police, Mr Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi.
The Chairman of the seven–man electoral panel, Gov. Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, was said to have enjoined the delegates to comport themselves peaceful.
He urged the delegates to leave the venue and they might have cast their votes .
Among the contestants are a former governor of the state, Alhaji Abubakar Audu, a former Speaker of the state house of assembly, Chief Clarence Olafemi, a journalist, Mr Onukaba Ojo, , Sen. Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman and Sen, Nicholas Ugbane .
Late Alhaji Abubakar Audu
