Candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the November 21 Kogi State governorship election, Prince Abubakar Audu has received more defectors and declared a three-point agenda for the state if voted into power.
Audu made his three-point agenda submission known at Alu, Yagba East Local Government Area of the state, while receiving thousand of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defectors from the Yagba federal constituencies, stated he will focus on power shift, declare state of emergency in critical sectors of the state as well as concentrate on ‘stomach infrastructure’.
He said: “Let me make my three point agenda known to the people of the state because I want to be held responsible for my world later when I gain power. Firstly, I will make sure that power shift become sacrosanct. I will be the first governor to shift power in the state. I must honour my agreement that, after my full tenure I will ensure power rotation either to Kogi West or Kogi Central.
“Secondly, I will declare state of emergency on the critical sectors of the state especially in the infrastructural sector. Shortly after I won my party primary, I took a trip outside the country where I met international business organizations who by now are just waiting for me to be sworn in so that they can come and invest in the critical sector of the state.
“Lastly, I will concentrate on ‘stomach infrastructure’. The welfare of the people of the state remains a priority to me. Let no one deceive you; I have nothing but the best interest of the people at heart.”
Elder Leke Abejide who led thousand of other defectors from the PDP in the federal constituencies, stated he left the PDP because of their rigidity.
Abejide, who was a House of Representative aspirant in the last election said, “There are five reasons why I left the PDP. Foremost of it all is that the PDP is conservative in nature and I am progressive in nature.
“Over the years, I have tried to change things within their fold but I have realised that it will not be. After painstaking deliberation with some of my followers and supporters across the three local governments in the area, and some people outside the state, we decided it is best to move to the APC where the real idea behind my joining politics can be realised.
“My basic purpose of joining politics is to impart on the life of the people of the state and my environment. I have over the years assisted the community by paying the school fees of all the students in the two secondary schools in my community for the past four years and will still continue to do that, but no matter what I do, it will not be enough if the right government is not in power.”
Abejide then called on the people of the state to vote for the APC so as to reap the benefit of democracy as visible during Audu’s first term in the state and also seen in some APC controls states across Nigeria.
Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Abubakar Badaru who was at the occasion to receive the defectors, stated it was disheartening that despite the level of education of people of the state, it could still be rule by the PDP who have improvised them.