Kogi: Bello Fails To Win Support Of Audu’s Family Despite Immortalising Ex-Gov

By Editor

Governor Yahaya Bello has renamed the Kogi State University after the first civilian governor of the state, Prince Abuabakar Audu.

However, a plot allegedly schemed by the All Progressives Congress, APC Governorship campaign to drag Audu’s family into giving the incumbent governor an endorsement was botched as the family members allegedly stiffly resisted urge.

The decision by Governor Bello to rename the university established by Audu is expected to win the governor support among associates of the deceased Audu whose mandate Bello inherited four years ago.

Sources disclosed that ahead of the renaming government officials had contacted members of the Audu family on the decision and had asked them to come around for the occasion at the university premises in Ayingba.

The family led by the scion of the family, Mohammed Abubakar Audu reportedly arrived and lodged at Ayingba Hotel while waiting for the ceremony scheduled for 1.00 p.m.

However, the Bello campaign was past the scheduled time at a rally in the town.

A senior official of the Bello campaign was said to have put a call to Mohammed Audu asking him and the family members to come over to the rally ground that the documentation for the renaming would be done there.

Mr. Audu was said to have immediately become suspicious that the invitation to the rally was to show off the Audu family as endorsing Bello’s second term aspiration..

Upon that the Audu clan immediately departed the town and returned to Abuja with a vow not to be used for endorsing Audu.

The decision to rename the university after Audu is coming against the background of increasing fears that the election may turn into a battle among the major ethnic groups with the governor’s Ebira group disadvantaged as the third major ethnic group in the state.

The governor’s position is also not helped by the revalidation of the candidacy of Natasha Akpoti, the Social Democratic Party, SDP candidate whose aspiration is also seen as capable of dividing the governor’s votes among the Ebira.

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