Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Smart Adeyemi has pleaded with veteran Nigerian journalist, Reuben Abati, to come back to the All Progressives Congress (APC). NAIJA NEWS reports.Information Guide Nigeria
It was reported that the APC chieftain made the appeal on Monday while fielding questions about the outcome of Kogi State gubernatorial primaries on Arise Television’s Morning Show program.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaSmart Adeyemi claimed that Abati has always been hard during his interview with APC chieftains, stressing they were boys to Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu.
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He said: “Reuben you know you have been very hard on our party, you been very hard on APC. You know you and I were Asiwaju’s boys. Reuben, you better come back to APC where you belong. Reuben come back home”
He also insisted there were no gubernatorial primaries in Kogi State, alleging the Governor, Yahaya Bello influenced the election in favour of Ahmed Usman Ododo, a former Auditor General for Local Governments in the state.
According to him, they were still discussing issues of the unavailability of electoral materials in their unit when they heard the result.NYSC Portal
He said: “There was no voting, we were at our unit and there was no voting. They took materials from Abuja and went to their closet to thump print. INEC and its officials were not present.
“We were at our various wards talking to each other only to hear announcement of results at about 2pm.
“Ododo is the cousin brother of Yahaya Bello, there was no election. In my district, three of us bought the form and 24 hours to the election, two others were asked to stop them.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to Canada“When the result was announced, Bello was seated there with no other aspirant other than Ododo. This is the worst form of rigging, I never believed this kind of thing can happen in the Nigeria of 2023.JAMB Result
“APC will have to decide if they want a candidate for the next election.
