Nigeria: Kogi PDP Plots Comeback

9 June 2017

Smarting from the loss of power to the All Progressives Congress, the Peoples Democratic Party in Kogi State is plotting a ‎comeback. Behind the plot is the Kogi West branch of the party which claims it's its turn to produce the next governor of the state, writes Shola Oyeyipo

Prior to 2015, the Peoples Democratic Party was the party to beat in Kogi State. Since 2003, Kogi State had been a stronghold of the PDP. But in what became a major upset, the party lost the state to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 governorship election in November, 2015.

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