APC Guber Aspirants Reject Kogi Primary Election Results

Some Governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday evening rejected the results of the Primary Election of the party held on Friday in the state.

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The aspirants include Senator Smart Adeyemi, former Minister of State Labour and Productivity, Professor Stephen Ocheni, son of late ex-Governor Abubakar Audu, Shuiabu, and a member of the National Working Committee of the APC, Murtala Yakubu Ajaka.

Speaking on behalf of the aggrieved aspirants at a press conference in Abuja, Senator Adeyemi claimed that no election took place to have warranted the declaration of Ahmed Usman Ododo as the Governorship candidate of the APC for the state.

He called on the President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Vice President-elect Senator Kashim Shettima, National Chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Adamu and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, not to allow the results of the primary election to stand.


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