Igala Protest, Ebira Jubilate As APC Nominates Bello To Replace Late Audu

Some people from the Kogi Eastern Senatorial District are protesting even as others from Ebira in the Central Senatorial District are jubilating over the choice, by All Progressives Congress (APC), of the runner-up to late Prince Abubakar Audu in the party’s governorship primary, Yahaya Bello, as replacement for the late governorship candidate.

The Igala people were said to  have blocked the major Anygba-Abuja Highway to protest the emergence of Bello, as the party’s replacement for late Prince Audu while the celebrations were believed to have rented the air in Okene, Obehira and other parts of the Kogi Central for his choice.

Information reaching us said that the protesting Igala youths blocked the Anygba-Abuja Highway at Itobe to show their disagreement with the choice of Bello.
Though the party is yet to officially confirm Bello as the replacement for Audu, information as at yesterday evening had it that the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, has thrown his weight behind his emergence.
With the position of Lawal, the leadership of the APC was believed to have followed suit, thus changing its earlier position of holding fresh primaries for Audu’s replacement to emerge.
However, the leadership of the Abubakar Audu/James Faleke Campaign Organization said today that the only way not to plunge the state into crisis was to nominate Faleke to carry on where Audu stopped.
It said the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, was only acting his selfish plot by doing otherwise.
The position of the Campaign was made known by its Head of Media, Dr. Tom Ohikere, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. [myad]