Igala People Visit Achema’s Grave, Seek Support For Wada

The Igala Cultural and Development Association board of trustees ahead of the Kogi State governorship election gathered at the graveside of the late Stephen Makoji Achema at Idah in Kogi East Senatorial District to pray and reinforce support for the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate, Musa Wada.

The chairman, board of trustees of ICDA, Dr. Yakubu Ugwolawo who led other trustee members and socio-cultural groups across Igala land while speaking stated that the political titan would have resisted bad governance in Kogi State.

He stated that if the late politician were to be alive he will stand against the bad governance, he charged electorate to vote out Governor Yahaya Bello of the All Progressives Congress on November 16.

Dr Ugwolawo recalled how he championed the political agenda that produced late Prince Abubakar Audu of APP in 1999.

He said, “The same political scenario in 1999 has presented itself in 2019, twenty years after and we are to take a decision he would have taken. We, therefore, call on Igala sons and daughters to respect late Achema the way we all respected him in 1999 and vote out APC’s Yahaya Bello”.

Dr Ugwolawo condemns the state government for undermining the electorate in the last four years only to turn around seeking votes of the people that were undermined.

He further stated that “party does not matter when the party has failed the people”. He noted that the present regime has been a nightmare

Dr Achema who was the Senior Special Assistant to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Labour Matters died in a ghastly motor accident close to Murtala Mohammed bridge along Koton Karfe – Lokoja road on his way from Abuja to attend PDP Congress on 6th November 1999.