As the governorship election of Kogi State approaches, the PDP has cleared 13 aspirants who indicated interest to fly the party’s flag.
had earlier announced plans for the upcoming Bayelsa and Kogi governorship elections. The elections will hold simultaneously in the two states on November 16.by a Screening Committee headed by the Governor of Taraba State, Darius Ishaku, at the PDP presidential campaign office in Maitama, popularly called the Legacy House.
The national leadership of the PDP had fixed a N20 million fee for aspirants intending to contest the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states. The party was thus able to rake in about N273 million from the sale of forms to the 13 aspirants from Kogi State alone.Idris Ichala Wada is the immediate past governor of Kogi State. In the last 2015 election, as the then incumbent governor under the PDP, he was defeated by the late Abubakar Audu of the All Progressives Congress .He comes from Dekina Local government of the eastern part of the state.Dino MelayeHe is a member of the 9th National Assembly, representing Kogi West in the Senate.
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