Campaign Council Pledges Victory for PDP in Kogi

Chuks Okocha in Abuja

The Chairman of the Peoples  Democratic Party (PDP) National Campaign Council for Kogi state governorship election, Governor Ademola Adeleke has pledged to deliver the state to the PDP in the November 11 gubernatorial election.

Speaking at the inauguration of the campaign council, the chairman  who is also the governor of Osun state, Ademola Adeleke said: “We are working for victory in the coming governorship election in Kogi state, this gathering is another step towards our match to Lugard House in Lokoja.”

“Today we are inaugurating all the sub committees, I want to urge all the members of the committee to be committed to the goal of what we want to do. Our job is to ensure that our candidate senator Dino Melaye is elected the governor of Kogi state.”, Governor Adeleke stated.

He charged the committee members to work towards the victory of Senator Dino Melaye as the next governor of Kogi state.

According to Governor Adeleke, “ As committee members we must commit our energy to achieve success because we mean business, you must be ready to make sacrifice, let us join hands together so that we can take kogi and move Kogi forward , 

“I am bringing you the template of IMOLE from Osun state, I am bringing with me the secrets of hard work success story. Let us work and deliver. Forget the fact that we are going against incumbent, I have defeated incumbents several times. If we focus our mind and we have faith anything can be done. We must believe in what we are doing. 

“I am from the west, and Dino Melaye is from the west of Kogi state, it is the turn of the west in Kogi state to produce the governor.”, Governor Adeleke said.

In his speech, the former Senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki, said that rhe November 11 governorship election is not about Dino Melaye, but about good governance and the PDP.

According to Saraki,  “This kogi election is not about Dino, we are not only voting for Dino Melaye , we are voting for ourselves, victory for PDP in the coming election is something we must all work to achieve. 

“There is no state that there will not be crisis, post primaries, there is no state after eight years with the kind of governor that you have that after eight years, there will not be crisis in the opposition. 

“But if you sit down and look at where Kogi is today, we all have an assignment and it is not Dino’s assignment. What has happened in that state in the last eight years , there is no candidate on the APC ticket, it is Yahaya Bello that is on the ticket. So it is a simple question, if you believe that in kogi after eight years of Yahaya Bello, he should have another four years, then go and vote for APC, but if you know that kogi people deserve better, vote for PDP. Because a governor Dino will not leave the workers unpaid.”, the former Senate president stated.

Accordingly, Saraki said, “A Dino as a PDP governor is hundred times better than any APC governor in this election.”

Speaking also, the governorship candidate of Kogi state, Dino Melaye expressed confidence that he will be the next governor of Kogi state. 

According to Melaye,  “I know that by the Grace of God we will win this election, the chairman of the election, Osun Governor has shown commitment to what we are doing. The PDP appreciates members from Kogi East because this is not an easy time to say I am a PDP supporter in Igalaland, but our PDP members have shown resilience, loyalty to the party, openly they have identified with the PDP and by the Grace of God PDP will win the majority of votes that will coke from the East. 

“Also l appreciate our brothers from Igbira land who despite having someone that calls himself a white lion, but I know there is no white lion, but my name is Daniel , I am used to kissing, taming and subduing Lions and by the Grace of God Lions are not suppose to live with human beings, there are supposed to be in the zoo. 

“We will send the lion back to the zoo. So our brothers from the central for standing by the party despite the satanic manifestation of Governor Yahaya Bello l thank you. For the west I congratulate you that you will produce the first democratic governor from the west in Kogi state.”, Senator Melaye stressed.

He said:”Kogi state  today in Nigeria is the only state where there is government without governance, saying, “as I speak with you permanent secretaries are taking Okada to the office in kogi, all our roads are death traps, the new specialist Hospital in Okene, no bed, no drugs, insecurity is pervasive, killing is the other of the day. 

“But I want to announce to you that we trust and believe in God that we will build a new kogi state and do things differently. We are going to govern with the fear of God.”, he stated.

The immediate past Senator representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Philip Aduda, was also officially inaugurated  as  Head of the PDP Caretaker Committee in Kogi State.

According to a release signed by PDP national organising secretary, Honourable Umar Bature, the 14-man committee was approved after extensive consultations with the Kogi State Stakeholders by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.

Bature said the committee “will run the affairs of our party in the state following the expiration of the tenure of the then-elected State Working Committee.”

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