Business mogul and former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Kalu has urged the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, its National Executive Committee, NEC, President Muhammadu Buhari and the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to replace the late Prince Abubakar Audu with his son, Mohammed, in the forthcoming supplementary election in Kogi State as a befitting tribute to the memory of the late politician.
DAILY POST recalls that the late Audu, who was the APC governorship candidate in last Saturday’s election, died on Sunday when the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared the election inconclusive although the deceased was on his way to defeating his opponent, Governor Idris Wada with over 41,000 votes.
But speaking yesterday from London where he is attending a Commonwealth conference on business, Kalu stressed that “Mohammed’s candidacy is the only way to immortalise his father’s name in acknowledgement of his innumerable contributions to the transformation of the APC and the development of Kogi State.
“Substituting Abubakar Audu with Mohammed will foreclose any intra-party squabbles that could arise following fresh primaries as planned by the party. Mohammed is eminently qualified to assume this arduous role. He should be given pre-eminence considering the circumstance of his father’s death at the weekend in Lokoja.”
The former Governor, in the statement signed by his media adviser, Mr. Ebere Wabara, further enjoined other APC prospective aspirants and all party stakeholders to rally round the late politician’s son as a way of honouring his father, stressing that the Abubakar Audu he knew would have supported such an arrangement had events been otherwise.
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