The political climate in Kogi State is changing very fast ahead of the coming government election.
The first runner-up in the last PDP governorship primary in Kogi, Alhaji Jibrin Isa Echocho, and the son of former governor of the state, Hon Mohammed Ibrahim Idris, has defected to the APC in Lokoja amidst cheers and jubilation from their supporters.
Receiving the decampees, leader of the party in the state and APC guber candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu, said with the departure of Echocho, PDP in Kogi is now dead and buried.
Prince Audu said he is coming back to develop the state and not to revenge, and also be the first governor to shift power to another zone, adding that he would never victimise a Kogi citizen by using the police or EFCC as vengeance belongs to God.
He emphasised that job creation will end youth restlessness in the state and that he will borrow money from the capital market to ensure that the Ajaokuta Steel Company works and gives the needed jobs to the teeming Kogi youths.
He frowned at the current practice in the state where the state government pays only 30% salary to the civil servants, promising to end the practice and pay all the remaining arrears.
Echocho said they gave PDP enough time to amend but they failed, adding that Audu’s coming is divine. He urged all elders and youths in the state to support Audu in the coming election.
Also speaking, the former commissioner for information, Hon Tom Oyekhire, said Ebiras should vote Audu as it is only through the APC that the Ebira agenda can be realised.
Among those that defected were former Senator Dangana Ochaja, Hon Tom Zakari, Hon Adamu Sani, Hon Ada Zigo and some immediate past council chairmen.
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