Kogi Guber Election: Audu, Baba Ali Pick Nomination Forms

Two governorship aspirants, the former governor of Kogi state, Prince Abubakar Audu, and Sulaimon Baba Alli on Monday picked nomination forms to contest the primary election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Both candidates stormed the party national secretariat with their teaming supporters collect forms and to formally declare their interests to context the November governorship election. Speaking to Journalists shortly after picking his form, Audu said all the structures he left as a governor of the state 12 years ago were still the ones standing without any addition by his successors. He said: "Presently Kogi is in a very bad shape and sorrow state and as such you can not allow somebody to go there and learn on the job, it require technocrats, somebody with experience and bring it up to the level I left it in 2003. "Most of the aspirants now I don't want to say much about them, most of them are trying to do it as Youth corps job, some of them are just young school leavers. Because they stumbled on some money somehow and they feel they should be governor of the state, what do they want to achieve? What is the present state of the state? How do the want to eliminate the very sad situation prevailing in the state? They have no idea, all the want is to be a governor." The former governor also revealed that "Kogi during my time as a governor was said to be the fastest growing state in Nigeria and I was crowned by the NUJ under the media tour that was undertaken to access the performance of every governor in Nigeria especially those that were on seat between 1999 and 2003." He believed that his party the APC had recorded what he described as 'huge' success at the last general election in Kogi state, hence, the assurance of winning the forthcoming governorship election.