Kogi APC Primary: Governor Bello Have Decided To Fight Like A Disturbed Cat In Other To Secure The Party’s Ticket.

Exposed: Yahaya Bello earmarks N200b for APC Guber ticket

Following the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) release of time-table for Kogi and Bayelsa governorship polls in November, the attention of political onlookers and analysts have shifted to these two states with the greater focus on the former.

This is largely due to the opposition the governor of the state, Yahaya Bello who inherited the mandate of the state’s veteran politician and cherished leader, Prince Abubakar Audu, is facing with the unwillingness of his party kingmakers to avail him the platform to seek another tenure. The indefatigable and unyielding national chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Comr Adams Oshiomole in his blunt refusal to avail Bello the ticket of APC for a second tenure reasoned  “how can you be owing your own people salary for 38 months and you still have the audacity to demand for the second term. If APC fields him he, we will lose the election, period”.

It is clear from the above remarks that Bello is in for one of the greatest political battles of his career and the governor have decided to fight like a disturbed cat in other to secure the party’s ticket for a start.


The Nigerian News gathered on Saturday from an impeachable source that the embattled governor, buoyed by the partial success of his visit to the national Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu have directed the state’s Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, Asiwaju Asiru Idris and the chairman of Kogi state board of internal revenue,  Alhaji Yakubu Oseni to urgently source the sum of N200 billion slush fund for his intra-party campaign.

The source who is privy to the meeting authoritatively told the political correspondent of The Nigerian News that the governor intends to use this fund to penetrate the ranks of the notable arrowheads within the APC including the board of trustees members. The source also hinted of a few lobbyists the governor recently recruited who are demanding billions of naira to make a case for the governor in the presidency. The governor is also said to have made plans to reach out to the office of the first lady in his quest to save his political ambition.

The Kogi APC stalwart made it clear to the Nigerian News that this is a do or die affair for the governor as he is unwilling to be disgraced out of the race. In his words “the governor is a young man and he is not ready to watch his political career be cut short. He has vowed to do all it takes to reassert his authority and force his party to give him the ticket”.

All efforts to reach the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Onogwu Mohammed as at the time of filing this report for his reaction failed as he did not take the calls placed to his numbers nor reply to our text messages.

It is still sketchy at the moment whether the youngest governor in Nigeria would bestride the politics of Kogi like a colossus and survive this political hara-kiri by getting the ticket of APC to contest the November 2nd governorship elections. However, what is most interesting to political observers and analysts is whether Mr Bello who is an Igbira man, a minority tribe in Kogi state will break the age-long hegemony of Igala political dominance of the state to win re-election into the most coveted office at the Lugard house.