The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Kogi State, Prince Abubakar Audu, has said that his plan is to accelerate the pace of economic development in the state if voted into office in the forthcoming governorship poll in the state.
Speaking when he received some indigenes of Kogi State living in the United States, Audu regretted that the state had not moved forward since he left Lugard House in 2003.
He said the state which had remained stagnant requires concerted efforts to terminate the PDP government in the state in the November 21 governorship election.
The former governor just arrived Nigeria from a trip to the United Kingdom and the United States of America where he had been holding talks and conferred with the business community on his blueprint to build a new Kogi State.
He left the country shortly after he picked a member of the House of Representatives, Abiodun Faleke, as his running mate and subsequent inauguration of the Prince Abubakar Audu Campaign (PAAC) organisation in Lokoja, the state capital.
Audu said, “I don’t know when last some of you travelled home but as I speak, the level of devastation in the state is unprecedented. The situation at home is terrible, which demands that we must all come together to rescue it.
“I will advance seriously on the infrastructure and human development that have been totally ruined. Kogi State was a fast growing state when I was the governor but the same story does not apply now.
“Kogi is the poorest and most backward state in Nigeria now. So, it is a source of great concern to all of us. We are all very sad about it. This is why it is very imperative for me to come back and take the state out of the woods.
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