KogiGovRace: Senator Abatemi-Usman Obtains APC Guber Form
Speaking through his media adviser, Michael Jegede, in a statement issued after obtaining his form on Monday, Abatemi-Usman said he joined the gubernatorial race to salvage Kogi State from the utter state of backwardness it has been since its creation about twenty-four years ago.
“We have been so unfortunate in Kogi State since it was created on August 27, 1991. We have never been lucky to have good leaders in the helms of affairs. And so, we have been in a complete state of
backwardness and retardation in terms of infrastructural and economic development. Those who had been privileged to be at the corridors of power in the state lacked the vision and foresight of how to bring about the overall advancement of our dear Kogi State. This is why I am coming out on the platform of our great party, APC to take over Kogi from the hands of this incompetent set of people who have left us in this state of outright underdevelopment where Kogites cannot be proud
of their own state. We cannot continue like this. The time for change in Kogi State has come,” the Abatemi-Usman maintained.
The governorship aspirant expressed confidence that he would win the primary poll and become the candidate of the APC for the main election holding on November 21, 2015.
According to him, his optimism is anchored on the decision of the national leadership of the party to create a level playing field for all the contestants, without penciling down anybody as anointed
candidate. He said: “The decision of the party to be neutral and dispassionate is highly commendable and a proof that APC is indeed a party built on change where transparency, fairness, equity and justice will be seen to have always prevailed in all its activities.”
Abatemi-Usman, who has been meeting with different groups of APC members at the grassroots across the length and breadth of Kogi State, urged delegates for the primary election not to allow anybody to deceive them with any form of inducement. He noted that leadership quality, past records, political experience and pedigree of the aspirants should be put into consideration in deciding who they cast their votes for in the primaries.
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