Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has chosen his current Chief of Staff, Edward David Onoja as his running mate in the November 16 governorship election.
Governor Bello defeated eight other aspirants to emerge the candidate of All Progressives Congress at the party’s primary on 29th August.
Informed sources told The Punch on Sunday in Lokoja that the APC National Secretariat has cleared Onoja as Bello’s running mate.
Onoja’s picture has been on majority of Bello’s posters in the build-up to the primaries but the candidacy just secured the nodding of the national chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday.
Onoja, a Geology graduate and a former banker has always been a formidable force to reckon with and have been the face of the government headed by Bello.
When contacted, the Director General, Media and Publicity to the Governor, Kingsley Fanwo said he is yet to be briefed.
He, however, said that it may be true as those who were privy to the nomination forms filled by the Governor at the National Secretariat might have leaked the information.
“Anyway, I think it’s true but I have not been officially briefed, ” Fanwo said.
The state chairman of the party in Kogi State, Abdulahi Bello said that the nomination of the governor and running mate was entirely the responsibility of the National Secretariat and not at the state level. (Punch)
