Governor Yahaya Bello becomes APC governorship candidate

By Jennifer Y Omiloli

Governor Yahaya Bello on Thursday, August 29, emerged the ticket carrier of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi for the November 16, governorship election in the state.

The Governor won the party’s primary with 3,127 out of 3,596 votes thrown by the agents.

Daybreak.ng assembled that a sum of 3,596 delegates out of 3,838, were authorize for the primary.

It was found out that ten hopefuls were cleared by the APC national working panel to contest in the election.

As the outcome is being anticipated, Justice Abdul Awulu, the vacation judge sitting in a high court in Lokoja, on Thursday, August 29, rejected an ex parte application to stop the governorship primaries of the APC in the state.

Ruling in the application documented by Alhaji Mustapha Audu, a governorship hopeful, Justice Awulu, held that the court can’t stop the primaries by order.

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