KOGI ELECTION: Jettison hope of clinching APC ticket, Gov Bello tells Prof Ogah

As the race for the forthcoming governorship election in Kogi State hots up, Governor Yahaya Bello has told Professor Seidu Ogah Mohammed, an All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in the state to jettison any hope of clinching the party’s ticket “no matter the level of his hallucination”.

Earlier, Seidu Ogah, (one of the aspirants in the race for the governorship of Kogi State) had boasted that he would defeat the incumbent governor in a free and fair contest if the use of direct mode of primary election to pick the party’s standard bearer for the November 16 poll is applied.

However, Governor Bello’s spokesman, Mr. Onogwu Mohammed, issued a press statement on Saturday in Lokoja, dismissing the claims by Mohammed as a “day-dream by a political neophyte, who will be trounced and humiliated during the party’s primary election billed for August”.

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The press statement reads further; “Our attention has been drawn to a day-dreamer whose new past time is to make fantastic claims to having some bogus political clout within our great party.

“But we dare say that there is no issue about who will fly the flag of the APC for the forthcoming governorship election in Kogi State as stakeholders within the party are unanimous that Governor Yahaya is the only credible and popular candidate that can give the party victory at the November 16 governorship election in the state.

“For the avoidance of doubt, Professor Seidu Mohammed and his imaginary supporters should be aware that members of the APC in Kogi are politically sophisticated and would ignore the empty grandstanding of a political lightweight who has no record of winning any election in his life—not even a councillorship election,” the statement added.

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