Ahmed Usman Ododo
By Our Reporter
That the former Auditor General for Local Governments in Kogi State, Ahmed Usman Ododo, has emerged the as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State is no longer news. What is perharps news is how he emerged.
Ododo, who scored a total of 78,704 votes, to win the direct primary election.
He defeated six other contestants in the primary election.
It would be recalled that seven other aspirants including the state’s deputy governor, Edward Onoja, Governor Yahaya Bello’s Chief of Staff, Pharm. Mohammed Asuku, had earlier withdrawn from the gubernatorial race on the eve of the primary election.
Ododo, who won with a very wide margin, defeated the distant runner-up, Barr. Mohammed Ozigi Salami, who scored 1,506 votes while the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Smart Adeyemi, scored the least number of votes – 311.
The secretary of the Kogi State APC Primary Election Committee, Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon, on behalf of the chairman of the panel, Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State, announced the results and declared Mr. Ahmed Usman Ododo as the winner of the gubernatorial primary election.
