Members of the Igbo Community Association (ICA) in Kogi State have pledged 100 percent block votes for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Usman Ahmed Ododo in the next Saturday, November 11 Governship election in the State.
The group assured the State Governor, Yahaya Bello, of an unflinching support for his administration as the November poll approaches.
The Igbo community, at a meeting with Governor Bello and Ododo, during the weekend, gave assurance that with their total votes, Ododo will emerge the next Governor of the State.
Speaking on behalf of the people of South East extraction, who are residents in Kogi State, the coordinator of Igbo Groups Backing Ododo (IGBO), Moses Okezie-Okafor, expressed gratitude for the Yahaya Bello Administration’s consistent friendship to the Igbo community, even as he highlighted the great achievements of the administration.
Okezie-Okafor confirmed that he has served for over seven years in the Kogi State Executive Council, courtesy of Governor Yahaya Bello’s merit-based leadership, adding Ndigbo in Kogi State are partakers in the achievements of the Yahaya Bello’s government.
The leader, who is a lawyer and hailed from Anambra State, expressed gratitude to Governor Yahaya Bello that for extending development to cover all sectors and constituencies in the state, especially education, infrastructure and healthcare.
According to him, the APC’s candidate’s slogan of ‘Continuity and Consolidation’ is founded on solid realities as he asked his people to vote to sustain the same.
The President of the ICA in Lokoja, Chief Sunday Nwachukwu, who doubles as the Leader of the Delegation, confirmed that the Igbo Community is a witness to the government’s great efforts in good governance across the state.
He expressed the group’s appreciation to the Governor.
