Kogi election: Strong APC chieftain dumps ruling party, endorses another guber candidate

  • Ahead of the November 11 governorship election in Kogi state, the leading party has lost a key member in its fold
  • Yahaya Ododo, a chieftain of the ruling party in the state has cross-carpeted to the opposition PDP
  • The former APC chieftain stated that Yahaya Bello’s government has failed the people of the state and failed to keep any of the promises made in 2015

A few weeks before the Saturday, November 11 gubernatorial election in Kogi state, a former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ankpa Local Government Area, Yahaya Ododo, dumped the party for an opposition party in the state.

Ododo, a retired military officer, alongside his supporters, dumped the party at an event in his ward in Ankpa Local Government Area of the state and defected to the Action Alliance party in the state.