•Describe unprecedented rally crowd as ‘testing mic’The people of Kogi East Senatorial District, who trooped out in their thousands in Anyigba, yesterday, to demonstrate their solid support for the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Usman Ododo, have promised to strengthen the unity of the state by delivering massively for the APC in the November 11 governorship election in the state.
In his remarks, the Director General, Kogi APC Governorship Campaign Council, and Minister of Steel Development, Shaibu Abubakar Audu, said the only agenda for the APC was the Kogi Agenda, adding that the party’s candidate was coming to build and consolidate on the laudable legacies of Governor Yahaya Bello.
Also, the lawmaker representing Kogi East in the National Assembly, Senator Jibrin Echocho, called on the people of Kogi East who had yet to come into the APC fold, to embrace the party, pointing out that elections are won on party structures. Addressing the people, the Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Edward Onoja, urged the people of Kogi East to vote on the strength of continuity and cautioned against sentiments, saying that elections are about political parties and not tribe, religion or region.In his speech, Governor Yahaya Bello cautioned the people against ethnicity, stressing that tribal politics had no place in this time and age.
Addressing the unprecedented crowd, the APC Governorship Candidate, Ododo, said his aspiration was about the people, progress and unity of the State.