Yahaya Bello Picked As Audu's Replacement

                          

The All Progressive Congress,APC has Picked Yahaya Bello as a replacement candidate for Kogi governorship supplementary elections following the death of Audu Abubakar who led the polls by 41,000.
Bello was opt for because he came second in the primaries behind Late Audu.

A source in APC said “Our leaders met and after consultations reached a conclusion on the choice of Yahaya Bello from Kogi Central as the party’s governorship candidate to substitute the late Prince Abubakar Audu.

“The leaders arrived at the conclusion because Bello was second to Audu at the validly conducted governorship primaries of the party. Instead of running into crisis with fresh primaries, the party opted to dust up the result of the previous one which was witnessed by INEC.“A letter, signed by the National Chairman of APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on the choice of Bello has been submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday.”