The news crept in surreptitiously. It was taken with a pinch of salt. But it turned out to be the truth. Minutes after the Chief Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Emmanuel Ujah declared the governorship election of Kogi State inconclusive, Prince Abubakar Audu died, the All Progressives Congress ( APC) candidate slumped.

THE AUTHORITY gathered that he collapsed immediately Professor Ujah made the declaration and was rushed into a vehicle on the way to Abuja for immediate medical attention.

Sources close to him, at that point expressed hope that he would make it to Abuja. But that was never to be. He died before he could get out of Lokoja, the State capital where he once held court in the position he coveted till the end.

According to his political associates who confirmed his death, he had fallen ill in the early hours of today due to the strains of hectic campaigning and hyperactive political meetings and consultations before the election.

Unknown to many he had been on medication for heart related ailment to sustain him in the last couple of years....
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