The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Shaibu Abubakar-Audu, is not going to resign his place as All Progressives Party’s, APC, campaign Director-General for the November 11 governorship election in Kogi.
The state’s chapter of the occasion made the declaration on Monday in Lokoja.
Media and Publicity Director of the Governorship Campaign Council, Kingsley Fanwo, instructed newsmen that requires Mr Abubakar-Audu’s resignation had been being orchestrated by “some employed goons’’ for “divisive causes’’.
The callers claimed that Abubakar-Audu could be soiling his picture if he remained because the campaign council’s director-general following the dimension the campaigns had taken.
“The Director-General of the Campaign Council, Mr Shaibu Abubakar-Audu is dedicated to executing a campaign that may usher in Alhaji Usman Ododo, the APC candidate’s period of consolidation and continuity.
“No quantity of ethnic parroting can distract the politically sagacious minister from the historic job forward.
“His late father, Prince Abubakar Audu (former governor of Kogi), was dedicated to a united, affluent and peaceable Kogi.
“The director-general is barely following his father’s footsteps.
“It is apparent that the rising profile of the minister and his unassailable inroads into the hearts of the folks of Kogi has turn out to be the nightmare of befuddled politicians,’’ Mr Fanwo mentioned.
He added that the APC’s candidate had remained uncompromisingly dedicated to issue-based campaign, devoid of violence, ethnocentric narratives or divisive tendencies.
“Under the management of the campaign chairman and that of Gov. Yahaya Bello, APC’s campaign has been peaceable.
“It is uniting and a real reflection of the enduring legacies which have saved our occasion on the apex of political efficiency in our pricey state,’’ he careworn.
Mr Fanwo mentioned additionally that APC’s issue-based campaign entailed its guarantees, assurances and social contract with the peace-loving folks of Kogi by means of the media to the folks.
He mentioned Ododo solely wanted Kogi folks to be satisfied by the legacies of the system he served in and his guarantees of consolidation and continuity to vote for him on Nov 11.
He enjoined safety companies to analyze the newest fracas in Lokoja and be certain that culprits had been prosecuted to function deterrent to different bother makers in Kogi.
NAN
