The state government letter: KGS/GO/ADM/25/II/XXX, dated September 16 and signed by Folashade Ayoade, the Secretary to the Kogi State Government, was addressed to the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard.
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Jones made the remark in Lokoja while speaking with newsmen after he paid an assessment visit to some tertiary institutions in the eastern senatorial district of the state.
The apex court dismissed the suit of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Musa Wada, and Social Democratic Party candidate, Natasha Akpoti, challenging Bello’s election.
APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, said this in a statement in Abuja on Thursday.
The governor also has sworn-in Justice Bayo Olowosegun as the acting President of the state Customary Court of Appeal following the vacuum created by the death of the immediate past President, Justice Ibrahim Atadoga, on June 22.
It said: “The PDP and indeed the people of Edo state are already aware that the trio were selected by the APC to lead its campaign so as to force a combined formula of Kano and Kogi electoral violence as well as Imo state mandate robbery to subvert the will of the people of Edo state in the governorship election.”
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State says the power of incumbency will not guarantee victory for Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, who recently defected from the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party.
The Club, in separate open letters, also congratulated Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State over the presidential move, which, it said, had confirmed the efforts of the governor in the same direction.
Bello disclosed this while addressing troops of 913 Battalion of the Nigeria Army stationed at Aloko-Ogane-Enigu, Dekina Local Government, to end the hostilities and restore peace to the affected communities.