THE candidate of the Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPA) for the November 21st Gubernatorial election in Kogi State Dr. Onuh Godwin Hussein has carpeted the candidates of PDP and APC as lightweight in the forthcoming election as they can not provide Kogi people the alternative they have been yearning for.
Dr. Husein who spoke during his declaration speech at the party’s secretariat at 200 units Housing Estate also went down memory lane to recall how the Igala Cultural Development Association (ICDA) in Kaduna rallied support for Abubakar Audu in 1992, (24 years ago) when he was first elected.
The guber candidate indicated that Audu did not accomplish one percent of the agenda set for him by the association.
He said his plan to return to Lugard House 24 years after couldn’t offer any alternative.
For the incumbent Governor Idris Wada he said he abused the opportunity on his hands to make life more meaningful for the teeming youths to have hope for their future.
According to him his party PPN is the only alternative that can salvage the people as it is visible and we’ll known in all the 21 local government of the State?
Hussein said PPN would take over the reigns of power in Kogi State to bring back the lost glory of the State adding that it will floor the PDP and the APC come November 21.
The PPN candidate said INEC requirements stipulates that campaigns for the Governorship Election should not start earlier than three weeks to the election.
He therefore challenged INEC to sanction the political parties that violated INEC rules of commencing campaign earlier than three weeks to the Kogi State polls.
He said it is only his party that has obeyed the rules by waiting till the electoral umpire blows the whistle.
According to him he was duly elected by delegates of his party at the secretariat under the supervision of INEC officials adding that consensus arrangement that produced candidates for other parties was illegal.
He said Kogi must be rescued from the present level of abject poverty.
