Nigeria: Kogi Stakeholders Divided Over Bello's Second Term

Lokoja — Governor Yahaya Bello's recent declaration to seek a second term in office is being greeted with stiff resistance. This is just as some Kogi State elders and stakeholders of All Progressive Congress (APC) have asked the Adams Oshiomole-led National Working Committee of the party to out rightly deny the governor a second term ticket.

In furtherance of their plot to stop Bello, the national leadership of APC has also been called upon to adopt the direct primary methodology for the party's gubernatorial primary, noting that the governor was overtly tele-guiding a factional exco of the party that could snatch unmerited victory for him if the indirect primary was adopted.

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