The All Progressives Congress (APC), governorship candidate in Kogi State, Abubakar Audu, has been described as an anti-thesis to everything the party stands for.
A group, Concerned Professionals in Kogi APC, on Thursday in Abuja, said it was preposterous and sacrilegious, attempts by Audu’s loyalists to compare him with President Muhammadu Buhari in the context of integrity, advising such persons to go have their brains checked.
In the statement signed by its chairman, Dr Obaje Audu, and Secretary, Dr Aliyu Adeyemi, the group noted that “Audu has been Indicted for several offences of corruption but through a mastery of the abuse and manipulation of court process, he has evaded conviction and he fully flaunts his success in this direction as a justification to contest elections.”
The group maintained that but for manipulation, Audu was rejected at the primary by the Kogi APC.
“Out of 4400 delegates he was, able to get 1109, which was far less than one quarter of delegates, but won by principle of simple majority. Where are those who will work for a man they roundly rejected?” They queried.
They further stated that, “To all intents and purposes, it is profane and obscene to compare Audu to our dear president in any manner whatsoever. Perhaps the notoriously short memory of Nigerians may have helped to dull the record of egocentrism, and megalomania that propelled the people into rejecting Audu in 2003, 2007, 2008, and 2011.
“This is a man who as state governor constituted himself into an Emperor, a title he relished with arrogant abandon.”
It listed others as “poor welfare of civil servants and pensioners: workers endured delayed salaries and never enjoyed promotion. There were huge contractors’ debts, unaccounted loans obtained from banks including the N1billion he got from the Continental Trust Bank now UBA, in December 2002, five months to the election that expelled him from office”.
The Concerned Kogi APC professionals added that the party will have itself to blame if Audu loses the governorship election as he was not the most qualified of all the aspirants that contested the primary.
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