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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called on the people of Kogi to come out en masse to vote for Gov. Yahaya Bello of All Progressives Congress (APC) on Nov. 16 election in the state in order to advance to the Next Level.
Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement, said the vice president represented President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday at the inauguration of the APC governorship campaign in Idah, Kogi State.
“I am not here on my own instructions alone; I bring you warm greetings from President Buhari.
“It is a very short message that I have also brought from him.
“You have heard our chairman who has said that Kogi is for the Next Level; we have finished the preliminary; it is now time to go to the Next Level,” he said.
He urged them to move in their numbers to their respective polling units and vote for the party, branding the Nov. 16 Election Day as the `Next Level day’.
Osinbajo said it was time for Kogi to join other APC controlled states in adopting the Next Level agenda.
According to him, the only way to make sure that the state gets to the Next Level is by making sure everybody comes out to vote for Gov. Bello on Nov. 16.
“So, I want to say to you, that all of us will hear very good news on Nov. 16.
“I pray for you also that all of you will hear good news; your family will hear good news; Kogi will hear good news,” he said.
Dignitaries at the event included the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Governors Yahaya Bello of Kogi, Sani Bello of Niger, Abdullahi Sule of Nassarawa and Abdurahaman Abdurazaq of Kwara.
Others were the Kogi State Deputy Governor, Edward Onoja, Minister of State, FCT, Ramatu Tijani and the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Sen. Babafemi Ojodu.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the unprecedented crowd at the official flagg-off of its governorship campaign in Lokoja, Kogi on Friday was an indication of its imminent victory in the Nov. 16 governorship election in the state.
The party stated this in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja, on Sunday.
Ologbondiyan said that the mammoth crowd at the campaign was a resounding declaration by the people that nothing would stop them from voting for PDP and its candidate, Mr Musa Wada, come Nov. 16.
“The crowd is also an unmistaken demonstration of the fact that Kogi remains a home to PDP, which will further manifest in the party’s landslide victory at the Nov. 16 election,” he said.
The PDP spokesman said that the earthshaking jubilation and ovations that greeted Wada and his running mate, Mr Sam Aro, had further established the people’s confidence and preference for the party and its candidate.
He said what was paramount to the people of Kogi was to vote in a PDP government that would make way for a purposeful, people-oriented and transparent administration under Wada.
Ologbondiyan commended the people of the state for their unity, resilience and courage in the face of machinations, threats, assaults and manipulations.
“The party also commends the patriotism of members of the APC who have crossed over to the PDP in the last few weeks to queue behind Wada, having realised that the liberation and repositioning of Kogi in the interest of the people can only be attained through PDP and Wada,” he said.
Ologbondiyan urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies to resist any influence and remain on the side of truth and fairness.
He said that the people of Kogi would never accept any process that would not reflect their will and aspiration in the election.