Lawan particularly rejoiced with the Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello on his reelection and David Lyon for making history as the first governor Bayelsa State has elected on a platform different from the outgoing ruling party in the state, Peoples Democratic Party.
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Gbajabiamila, in a congratulatory message by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Lanre Lasisi, said the victories recorded by the APC candidates in the two States was an indication of the wide acceptance the party enjoys in the two States.
The President described the election and emergence of the All Progressives Congress candidate as “a race well run and a victory well won”
Bello, who flew the flag of the All Progressives Congress for the election, was declared winner of the contest on Monday morning
Out of the 21 local government areas in the state, the results of 19 had been announced before the suspension by INEC
The Court of Appeal had ordered a rerun election between Senator Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party and the candidate of the APC, Senator Smart Adeyemi
The party said this is ongoing in Okene and Okehi Local Government Areas in Kogi Central Senatorial District, where the governor and the APC are desperate to allocate fictitious votes and fabricate results in their favour.
Kogi Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Friday, told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that he was ready to defend himself in the allegation of double registration framed against him by Natasha Akpoti.
The presiding judge, Justice Inyang Ekwo, who adjourned the case, said the decision was to afford Governor Bello, who sought to be joined in the matter, a fair hearing.
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State and Chairman, Kogi State Governorship Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress has pleaded with the people of the state to re-elect Governor Yahaya Bello for a second term.
The originating summon, which is instituted by Natasha Akpoti, the Social Democratic Party’s governorship candidate in the forthcoming poll, will be mentioned at Court 5 before Justice Inyang Ekwo.
Kogi’s number one problem in the last two decades has been poverty, not a shortage of testosterone. The state’s monthly allocation is five times smaller than what Dangote gets monthly from the Obajana Cement factory also located there.
Melaye, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, said this in a campaign video that trended on Sunday
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi has promised to reconstruct the Shintakun-Oguma-Gboloko-Mozum road in Bassa Local Government Area, if re-elected for a second term in November 16 governorship election.
Moses Damisa, UPC Chairman in Kogi, had told newsmen on Friday that Abuh had stepped down for Governor Bello, adding that the party’s structure had been collapsed into Bello’s structures.
Moses Damisa, Kogi Chairman of the party, disclosed this during a news conference at the NUJ Press Centre on Friday in Lokoja.
Wada also promised to review the screening of pensioners and local government workers with a view to ensure justice, saying that pensioners were not supposed to be afflicted with suffering at old age.
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has called on the people of Kogi to come out en masse to vote for Governor Yahaya Bello of All Progressives Congress on November 16 election in the state in order to advance to the Next Level.
The PDP said in a statement on Wednesday that it already has the support of over 70 per cent of registered voters in 18 out of the 21 local governments across the state, even ahead of its official campaign flag-off ceremony in Lokoja on Friday in preparation for the party’s inevitable landslide victory at the November 16 governorship election.
The Peoples Democratic Party has warned commercial banks in Nigeria to be circumspect in giving loans or any form of credit to the “wasteful” administration of outgoing Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State.