Kogi PDP’s rubble after electoral storm
Wada family smarts from acrimonious governorship primary Ibro, elder Wada yet to reconcile
While two families, those of Idris and Wada, played a central role in the process, that of the latter may have more to contend with afterwards. Of the 13 aspirants who contested the PDP governorship primary, the Wada family paraded two, namely the eventual winner and his elder brother and immediate past governor of the state, Capt. Idris Wada.
At the end of the shadow election, Engr. Musa Wada, younger brother to former Governor Idris Wada and son in-law to another former governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris , emerged the party’s candidate for the forthcoming governorship election in the state, followed closely by Abubakar Ibrahim Idris, Ibro’s son and elder brother to Eng. Musa Wada’s wife.
Other aspirants included Aminu Suleiman , Victor Adoji , Erico Joseph , Retired AVM Saliu Atawodi , Emmanuel Omebije , Mohammed Shuaibi , Bayo Michael and Kabiru Haruna .
Counting resumed at a lodge adjacent to the Government House Lokoja, with all the aspirants and their agents present. Five journalists were allowed into the premises and the rest, like they say, is now history. At the last Kogi PDP congress in Lokoja, Capt. Wada, who arrived the venue of the exercise ahead of Ibro, refused to acknowledge the former’s presence, not to talk of shaking hands or exchanging pleasantries. And even though both were two seats apart, having between them Tunde Ogheha and Yomi Awoniyi, Wada’s former deputy, the latter’s focus would not be distracted from his mobile phone as he focused his attention on the phone in his hands.
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