Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress in Kogi East Senatorial District have renewed their calls for the return of the Kogi State governorship to the district, saying it is time to reposition the area politically a decade after the death of former Governor Prince Abubakar Audu.
The demand formed the highlight of a communiqué issued at the end of a strategic leadership conference held in Abuja on Thursday, where party leaders declared that Kogi East must work with the other senatorial districts to achieve a peaceful and equitable power-sharing arrangement ahead of the 2027 elections.
The communiqué was signed by 26 prominent APC leaders from the district, including Conference Chairman Maj. Gen. Patrick Akpa (retd), Isaac Onu, Ismaila Hussani, Emmanuel Egwu, Salamatu Umar-Eluma, AIG Abutu Iyaro (retd), Abdulahi Haruna (SAN) and Prof. Aliyu Idris.
In his speech, Akpa stressed that Kogi East would no longer accept being treated as “an appendage of any political bloc” in the state.
The conference chair recalled that the death of Audu shortly after the 2015 governorship election created political divisions that had persisted for more than a decade, arguing that the time had come to heal old wounds and rebuild alliances capable of returning political power to Kogi East.
