The Director General of the Musa Wada Campaign Organisation, Mr. Tajudeen Yusuf, has predicted the defeat of Governor Yahaya Bello and Senator Smart Adeyemi in the coming elections in Kogi State.
While Bello is seeking re-election as governor, Adeyemi is aspiring to return to the Senate to represent Kogi West.
Governor Bello, who is contesting on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is being challenged by Mr. Musa Wada of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Also, Adeyemi is challenging Senator Dino Melaye of the PDP for the Kogi West senatorial seat, following the nullification of the latter’s election by the Court of Appeal, which ordered a rerun poll for the district.
Yusuf said the two elections slated for November 16 would mark the retirement of Bello and Adeyemi from partisan politics.
In a statement he circulated in Abuja on Monday, Yusuf said lack of infrastructural development, impoverishment of civil servants and gross ineptitude of the Bello administration have forced the electorate to embrace the PDP and its candidates.
Saying the Bello administration had set the state 10 years backward; Yusuf said the PDP would end the nightmare through the ballot, with the support of Kogi people.
The statement said: “Last weekend, people from the 21 local governments across Kogi State gave the PDP a rousing indication of coming victory in the November 16 elections, with the enthusiastic support of our campaign launch at the Confluence Stadium in Lokoja.
“We thank our grassroots activists, party leaders at the ward, local, state and national levels for the success of the launch of our campaign towards putting Musa Wada, an engineer and Hon. Sam Aro in Lugard House and re-electing Senator Dino Melaye as the lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial District.
“In the face of all manifestations of desperation by Kogi APC, the PDP is increasingly certain of success in the November 16 poll and for this, we sincerely thank our party leaders, grassroots activists and the entire citizenry of Kogi State, whose determination to sweep out the outgoing governor and his grossly insensitive leadership only assures of a coming victory celebration for PDP in Kogi State.
“The Kogi State APC tried to imitate us, but with their usual trademark of deceit and falsehood. In the history of Kogi State, no governor ever presented a Greek gift in the form of a used Rolls Royce car to a paramount traditional ruler in whose domain the roads have been neglected for four years.”
Credit: The Nation
