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.”
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