The All Progressive Congress, (APC) candidate for the 21st November Gubernatorial election in Kogi State, Abubakar Audu, has debunked insinuation that he would embark on vendetta against his predecessor declaring rather to embark on a rescue mission in the state if given the chance to rule again.

Audu stated this on Friday in Okene during the party’s zonal rally. The first executive governor said that he was not coming on a revenge mission against his successor after leaving office in 2003.

It would be recalled his successor, Ibrahim Idris, subjected him to a prolonged EFCC probe that had neither been concluded nor nailed him till date.

The APC standard bearer promised that he would concentrate on the development of Kogi State by making Lokoja a mega city.

“I am coming to rescue the state from hunger, backwardness, poverty and not to probe anybody,” he stated.

He said that he would not take any Kogi son or daughter to EFCC or any other security agencies.

The APC candidate promised to ensure power shifted to other parts of the state after his tenure.

In another development his successor former Governor Ibrahim Idris asked PDP supporters not lose sleep over Audu because he would be defeated for the umpteenth time.

Idris said that the party would re-enact its winning ways over him as it had always done.

Idris who spoke at a flag-off rally of the party at Anyigba in the governor’s local government of Dekina said that it was not possible for any other party to take over Kogi State at this time saying the state remained a traditional PDP State.

In his words: “I defeated Audu four times; personally I defeated him three times and I brought somebody who defeated him, so we are going to defeat him again.

He said that this time around he would be sent on exile and would not come back to disturb the state again.

He debunked insinuations that he was at the verge of dumping the PDP for another party.

He insisted that as a landlord he could not leave the house he erected for any tenant to take over or for himself to become a tenant in another party.

The former governor who was at the centre of the storm just before the primary of the party when efforts were made to replace Governor Wada with his preferred candidate Ibrahim Isah Echocho has thrown his full weight behind the governor’s re-election.

Idris asked the people to disregard all rumours about any plan to leave PDP saying it was the work of mischiefmakers.
He added that Wada had delivered and that a second term for Wada would prove him right.