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  • Abatemi-Usman obtains Kogi APC form

    Kogi State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman has picked the nomination form, ahead of the primary election scheduled for August 29.

    Speaking after obtaining his form at the APC secretariat, Abuja, Abatemi-Usman said he joined the race to salvage the state from backwardness.

    He said: “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 sorry 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,” Abatemi-Usman maintained. The 44-year-old governorship aspirant expressed confidence that he would win the primary poll and become the candidate of APC for the guber election holding on November 21, 2015.

  • Abatemi-Usman obtains Kogi APC form

    Abatemi-Usman obtains Kogi APC form

    Kogi State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman has picked the nomination form, ahead of the primary election scheduled August 29.

    Speaking after obtaining his form at the APC secretariat, Abuja, Abatemi-Usman said he joined the race to salvage the State from backwardness.

    He said: “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 sorry 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,” Abatemi-Usman maintained. The 44-year-old governorship aspirant expressed confidence that he would win the primary poll and become the candidate of APC for the guber election holding on November 21, 2015.

     

     

     

     

  • PDP, a bully, says Abatemi-Usman

    PDP, a bully, says Abatemi-Usman

    All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman Kogi Central has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a bully devoid of internal democracy.

    The senator told reporters in Abuja that his defection to the APC was to enable him contribute to the enrichment of good governance and the enhancement of the socio-economic development of the country, under the incoming administration of General Muhammadu Buhari.

    Abatemi-Usman, a former member of the PDP, contested the recent senatorial election on the platform of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) after he was unfairly denied the PDP ticket.

    Speaking on his sojourn in the PDP, the Kogi Senator, who gave support to Buhari in the presidential poll, said: “PDP came to life in 1998. And one of those that was there was my father. My father was one of the founding fathers of PDP. And in this clime, you hardly want to do things opposite your father. So, I naturally took to PDP. But, for you to know that I am not one of your regular followers, I have had many, many opportunities to disagree with a PDP-led position in the Senate. I will tell you some. The case of the River State House of Assembly wanting to impeach a sitting governor with a minority of four members, which was a position of the PDP, I was frontally against that. The case of the invasion of the National Assembly by the Nigerian Police, a democratic and legal abomination, I was against that frontally. The PDP and the PDP-led government saw nothing wrong in it. I have had my times and opportunities to disagree with the situation and a position that went against my core belief. And indeed when the PDP shamefully went against me in the primaries after I emerged winner, I said okay. I am not going to fight you. You are a big bully! But I am not going to run away from you. I stood in their face and I say you know what, I am taking my leave.” And what did I do? I stood against the bully. I ran against the bully. I made sure the bully did not come back to that same seat.”

    He continued: “The story of a Buhari emergence as the President-Elect is not a story of one man. It is a story of many parts. And definitely, I am one of those parts. I stood against the bully in power. The minimum I contributed to Buhari is a 20,000 votes, over 17,000 votes, not counting the mistakes done by the old people who wanted me. It is verifiable because I brought a new platform, a completely new platform in my own constituency, Kogi Central, never been held of before, PPA, Progressive Peoples Alliance. We stood against Jonathan and supported Buhari’s candidature. That is a part of our story. So, I go where I have belief, where I am convinced I should go. It is the story of this country that we’ve not grown to that level as to have very defined ideologies. Well, thankfully I have come to the end of the road with my dear PDP.  And the rest tomorrow shall tell.”

     

     

  • Vote for credible candidates, Abatemi-Usman urges Nigerians

    The Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Nurudeen Abatemi-Usman, has called on eligible voters in the to vote for candidates that will bring about development at all levels of governance, regardless of whatever political parties they belong to.

    According to a statement by his media assistant, Michael Jegede, the senator, representing Kogi Central Senatorial District made the call while addressing the mammoth crowd that came to show him solidarity, upon his arrival in Okene to formally inform members of his constituency that he was  in the Senatorial.

    Abatemi-Usman was among the senators, who recently quit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a result of the injustice meted out to them in the last primary election. He has secured the ticket of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) to pursue his second term ambition in the Senate.

    The PPA senatorial candidate in Kogi Central said: “I thank you all for your unflinching support all this while since you gave me the mandate to represent you in the Senate. I have come to let you know that I am still fully involved in the senatorial contest for Kogi Central holding on February 14, 2015. I am now running on a different platform which is the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA).

    “My dear people, I seek your continued support and I assure you that I will not relent in my pursuit to ensure the sustenance of peace in Ebiraland, where political thuggery and violence will continue to remain a thing of the past. I urge you, and indeed, the entire Nigerians, not to vote for party in the coming election, but to look out for credible candidates that will change things for the better in the interest of the masses, irrespective of the political party on whose ticket they are running in the election.”