…Inaugurates National campaign Council on Saturday
Over a thousand members of the Kogi State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress in Kogi State.
The decampees from Ukwo and Odaki Wards in Koton Karfe town defected to the APC on Wednesday.
The detection did not leave out top leaders of the party as the PDP LG Assistant Secretary, Former Gegu North Ward Chairman, the immediate past Councillor from Gegu North and the leader of PDP in Zone C Alhaji Idris Ibrahim Tanahu all left the PDP to join the APC because of what they described as the “sterling leadership qualities of the APC Governorship Candidate, Alh. Ahmed Ododo” as well as the excellent achievements of Governor Yahaya Bello, especially in the LGA and the state as a whole.
Alh Idris Ibrahim Tanahu said those still in the PDP are people whose traits are similar to that of the Candidate.
In his words, “I pity those still associating themselves with the characters fielded by the opposition. They have no followers because many of them do not possess the qualities of leadership that we have seen in Alh. Yahaya Bello and Alh. Usman Ododod. We have decided to join the team of people with integrity and good character.”
The decampees heaped compensation on the Hon. Commissioner for Solid Minerals, Engr. Bashir Gegu for touching the lives of the people positively and for attracting well meaning development to the area.
Another decampee, Ibrahim Mohammed said it will amount to ingratitude for the people of Kogi Local Government Area not to vote for the APC massively, saying the APC administration has sited landmark and life-touching projects in the Local Government Area such as electricity and a state of the art hospital.
Meanwhile, the APC is set to formally inaugurate its campaign Council for the 11th November, Kogi Governorship election on Saturday, September 2, at the Conference Centre of the Kogi Govt. House, Lokoja, by 11am.
According to a statement signed by the party’s National Organizing Secretary, H.E Sulaiman Muhammad Argungun, the Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun will heads the Party’s 191-member National Campaign Council for the Governorship election.