There are fears that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Saturday’s Kogi State governorship election, Abubakar Audu, is dead.
Audu, according to a report on Sahara Reporters, died shortly after the Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday declared the election inconclusive.
Though the credible online news medium said it could not determine the cause of death as at press time, sources told it Audu died shortly after INEC said a date for fresh election in areas with nullified votes would soon be fixed.
Channels Television is also reporting the death of Audu.
However, his aides did not respond to calls by The Eagle Online, fuelling the suspicion that the report could be true.
At the conclusion of collation of results from the 21 local government areas of the state, Audu polled 240,867 votes, while the incumbent and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Captain Idris Wada, came second with 199,514 votes.
The Returning Officer for the election. Prof Emmanuel Kucha, said 49,953 votes were cancelled and this was more than the margin between the votes of Audu and Wada.
INEC, Kucha said, will fix a date for the supplementary election in areas that had their votes canceled.
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