The Kogi Government on Tuesday described the Nov. 11 governorship election in the state as a referendum on the administration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello. The state Commissioner for Information, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, made this known while receiving the leadership of the Ododo Support Organisation led by its Director...
Kogi State Governorship election
Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello on Thursday, received PDP defectors from Olamaboro Local Government Area, led by Sen. Attai Aidoko-Ali, to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The governor, while receiving the defectors in Government House, Lokoja, the state capital, expressed satisfaction with the level of unity existing among the...
Sen. Smart Adeyemi, a former lawmaker said on Wednesday in Abuja that he would approach the Court of Appeal to challenge the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja which affirmed the primary election of Ahmed Ododo. Delivering judgment in the suit marked FHC/CS/556/2023, Justice James Omotosho held that Adeyemi’s...
The Kogi Government on Monday assured the people of the state of adequate security and safety during the Nov. 11 governorship election. Mr Kingsley Fanwo, the Commissioner for Information, gave the assurance during a news conference in Lokoja. Fanwo, who was responding to the allegation of extra-judicial killing leveled...
A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Emmanuel Ogidi, says the party is confidence of winning the Nov. 11 governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi. Ogidi, a former PDP Vice-Chairman (South) in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday, described PDP...
Ahead of the Kogi governorship election scheduled for Nov. 11, Alhaji Muritala Ajaka has emerged Kogi East consensus candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Gabriel Aduku, Chairman of the Kogi East Elders Committee unveiled and presented the candidate to Kogi people at a news briefing in Abuja on...
Following repeated violence against political actors and the media in Kogi State in the march to the 2023 governorship election, Ukomu Igala Organization, a socio-political group in Kogi East Senatorial District, has written a petition to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to call Governor Yahaya Bello to order and halt...
By OJOMA PETER, Lokoja – Kogi State Government has warned politicians against promoting ethnic sentiments and other divisive tendencies ahead of the November 11 governorship election in the state. The state Commissioner of Information and Communication, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, who gave the warning in a statement in Lokoja on...
Sen. Smart Adeyemi, (APC, Kogi West), Shuaibu Abubakar and three others have approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, demanding an immediate cancellation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary in Kogi. The suits are marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/556/2023 and FHC/ABJ/ CS/557/2023 and were filed by Mr Adekunle Otitoju on behalf...
Two members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have pleaded with an Abuja High Court to void the party’s Governorship Primary election which held on April 11. Mr Realwan Akpanachi and Yahaya Seidu-Nuhu, in an originating Summons filed by their Counsel, Mr Promise Ogbodu, sued six of the contestants...
A political pressure group, Okun4Gov Strategy Committee, says it is almost certain that the next governor of Kogi will emerge from the Okunland. The group said this in a statement jointly signed by its Coordinator Prof Mike Ikupolati and Co-ordinator Mr Sola Enikanolaye in Lokoja. It said that the...
By OJOMA PETER, Lokoja – Kogi State Governorship aspirant under the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Abayomi Awoniyi, has alleged that Senator Dino Melaye’s victory at the party’s primary election was a fraudulent one. Mr. Awoniyi said the primary election was not free, fair or credible election as it...
Friday’s governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi took a dramatic turn on Thursday as the deputy governor, Mr Edward Onoja, stepped down for the state’s Auditor-General, Ahmed Usman-Ododo. Seven other aspirants, including a former Commissioner for Finance, Mr David Adebanji-Jimoh, Asiwaju Ashiru Idris and...
Dr Atule Ahmadu-Afolabi, a female aspirant on Wednesday joined the November Kogi governorship race on the platform of the Labour Party (LP). Ahmadu-Afolabi a medical doctor, told newsmen shortly after picking her nomination forms at the party secretariat in Abuja, that her focus was to harness the economic potential...