Prince Abubakar Audu, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the just concluded Kogi state election which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared inconclusive is feared dead.
INEC’s returning officer for the election, Prof. Emmanuel Kucha of Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, said no party could be declared the winner yet until a new date is fixed for a rescheduled election in 59 polling units of 18 local governments whose results were cancelled.
Kucha said since the numbers of cancelled votes was more than the difference between the results of leading candidate, Audu of APC and the second placed Capt. Idris Wada of PDP.
Otherwise, Audu, the first executive governor of Kogi State, might have been declared the winner of the Governorship election held on Saturday.
He was born on 27 October 1947, to the family of his Royal Highness, the late Pa Audu Oyidi, Orego Atta of Igala Land and the paramount ruler of Ogbonicha-Alloma in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State.
He started his education at the then N. A. Junior Primary School, Alloma, and later N.A Senior School Ankpa, from where he proceeded to Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha. He later transferred to the Jos Commercial College where he obtained both the GCE O and A level
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