16th April 2023
A member representing Yagba Federal Constituency, Leke Abejide, Saturday, emerged as the sole governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress.
The ADC primary which was held peacefully across the 239 wards of the 21 local government areas of the state had its Collation Centre at the Idris Nana Hotel, Lokoja.
The direct primary election was supervised by Federal and State officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, with the presence of security agents.
Mrs Magdalene Aku represented the INEC chairman at the primary while Sadiq Zakaye and one other represented the INEC office in the state.
Announcing the results, the National Collation Officer of the party, Dr Babalola Ajadi said out of the 9,584 total votes, Leke Abejide had 9,456 votes while 128 votes were recorded as invalid.
Dr Ajadi said, “Having scored the highest valid votes and the only contestant in the primary, Leke Abejide is declared winner of the primary and ADC candidate in the Nov 11, 2023 governorship election.”
Speaking after his emergence, Abejide promised to prioritise education, workers’ welfare, security and infrastructural development if elected.
He promised to make his detailed manifesto available to all Kogi electorate in the next few weeks.
Abejide also pledged to pay WAEC fees for all students in the 21 LGAs in the state.
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Editor’s Note
In our post on February 19, 2023, in a story ‘Woman burns self to death over failure to offset N70,000 loan’, we reported that a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her inability to pay back a loan of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance bank, LAPO. We have since discovered that the microfinance bank referred to in the story was not LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited. We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error in the identification of the name of the said microfinance bank where the deceased took the loan. The mix-up in the name of the MFB is not deliberate.
February 19, 2022
