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Protests rocked Kogi State, yesterday, following a report that
a candidate had been picked by the All Progressives
Congress (APC) for Saturday’s governorship supplementary
election outside Kogi East, dominated by Igala people where
the Prince Abubakar Audu, the late candidate of the party,
hailed from.
The report had said, yesterday, that the APC leadership had
picked Audu’s closest rival in the party’s primary ahead of
the Kogi governorship election, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to
replace the deceased in the supplementary election.
Separately, the APC leadership denied that the party had
given the governorship ticket to Bello.
Bello is Ebira, from Kogi Central, while the Igala people are
rooting for one of their own and Audu’s son, Mohammed, to pick the APC ticket.
Protesting youths of Igala extraction, yesterday, blocked River Benue Bridge, to drive home their demand that Igala should get the APC ticket.
They threatened to destroy the bridge at a location called Itobe.
There were similar protests in Ochadamu in Dekina Local Government Area and Idah.
Meanwhile, youths of Kogi West, under the aegis of Okun Youths Forum, cautioned against throwing the state into crisis on the grounds of a non-Igala emerging as the APC candidate for the supplementary election.
At press time, police were said to be battling to disperse the protesters who took over River Benue Bridge as they grew in number.

By Kehinde Ajose Afropop star, Wizkid is one youngster whose swift rise to the top wows everyone. The Ojuelegba sensation is undoubtedly one of the most sought after African pop stars of his generation.
On the flipside, the star boy, as he loves to be called hasn’t been quite fortunate when it comes to winning awards. In a recent interview, the outspoken entertainer says that winning awards isn’t his reason for doing music. His Afrobeat song, Ojuelegba has enjoyed countless airplays and hasfurther added to his star power. He reveals in a recent interview with Fade magazine that he didn’t expect it to be a hit song: I knew ‘Ojuelegba’ was a good song, but I didn’t expect it to blow up the way that it did. My parents still live there. We
have a house there.”

Top Nigerian rapper, Olamide Adedeji has announced the death of his father. Olamide who just released his 5th studio album, Eyan Mayweather, announced the sad news on his Instagram page on Thursday. While praying for the peaceful repose of his father, the YBNL rapper wrote a farewell message via his Instagram thus: “O God, who hast
commanded us to honor our father and our mother; in Thy mercy have pity on the soul of my father, and forgive his trespasses; and make me to see him again in the joy of everlasting brightness. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. Rest well Dad.. Forever in my heart.”
On his ‘Street OT‘ album released in 2014, Olamide wrote about his father getting shot by armed robbers on the track ‘1999‘. He also raps about his father on his popular song ‘Anifowose‘. Vanguard Newspaper.