It is learned that Abubakar Audu, the
governorship candidate of the All Progressives Party (APC) in yesterday’s
election in Kogi State, died as early as 5 a.m. Nigerian time on Sunday.
According to family
sources, Mr. Audu started vomiting blood on Friday night in what family sources
described as a bizarre deterioration in his health condition. One of the family
sources described the late controversial politician as hypertensive.
“He started vomiting blood
after he returned from Lokoja,” said the family source who witnessed Mr. Audu’s
deterioration.
He added that Mr. Audu woke
up very tired on Saturday, the day of the governorship election. He said
doctors had given the former governor blood transfusion which gave him enough
energy to go to the polling booth to vote in his hometown, Ogbonicha.
According to the source,
Mr. Audu returned to his home on Saturday and began vomiting again. “After a
while he became unconscious and died around 5 a.m. on Sunday morning,” said the
source, who requested anonymity.
The family’s timeline of
Mr. Audu’s death indicated that he passed on before officials of the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) started collation and
announcement of results.
A source at INEC said that electoral officials knew of Mr.
Audu’s death before they announced the results of his election inconclusive on
Sunday.
Mr. Audu was a former
governor of Kogi who was accused of stealing billions of naira from the state’s
treasury. SaharaReporters had exposed a multi-million dollar home bought by the
ex-governor in Potomac, Maryland near Washington, DC.
The APC chose Mr. Audu as
its governorship candidate despite the fact that he was being tried for money
laundering and embezzlement of state funds by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC).
Mr. Audu will be buried
tomorrow according to islamic rites in his hometown.
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