A frontline politician and chieftain of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State, Alhaji Abdulkadir Ahmed, has
alleged that some strange politicians would contest for the party’s
ticket during the primary election scheduled for Saturday.
Ahmed said, yesterday in Abuja, that more than half of those parading
themselves as APC governorship aspirants were moles planted by the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), adding: “We have it on good authority
that the PDP is sponsoring 15 of the 28 governorship aspirants expected
to contest the next Saturday’s primary poll.
“The PDP is determined to ensure that one of its own flies the party’s
tickets and it has committed huge resources to actualise the project.”
He alleged that the PDP was bent on retaining the governorship seat
through all possible means, adding that those perfecting the move
believed that the PDP chieftains must produce governorship candidates of
both PDP and APC.
“If the ‘APC candidate wins the November 21 poll, he will move back to
his original platform, the PDP,” he alleged.
The APC had a fortnight ago cleared all the 28 governorship aspirants
seeking its ticket for the Kogi State governorship election.
The national organising secretary of the APC, Osita Izunaso, said the
high number of contestants indicated that the party was the most popular
platform in the state.
But in a swift reaction, the PDP Vice Chairman South-south, Dr. Cairo
Ojougboh, described the accusation made by the APC as laughable, saying:
“If they know the PDP is sponsoring these aspirants, why can’t they
disqualify them during the screening? They (APC) are not ready for the
coming Kogi State governorship elections.
“We are ready and they know that the people will vote for us again. They
are only trying to find excuses where there is none so that when we win
they would say we rigged.”
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/politics/kogi-election-15-pdp-moles-contesting-apc-ticket/108214.html
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