2023: Kogi Deputy Governor Onoja Picks APC Nomination Form »

Edward Onoja, Kogi state Deputy Governor has collected the APC nomination form for the November governorship election in the state.

The Deputy Governor who’s forms were picked up at the APC secretariat in Abuja by the Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Yahaya Bello, Hon. Sunday Faleke accompanied by some other appointees of government, received the forms in his office in Lokoja amidst cheers and prayers.

Onoja in a short remarks appreciated God for the goodwill.

He praised his principal, Governor Yahaya Bello for his leadership which has brought peace, unity and development to Kogi State, adding that the driving force behind his ambition was the passion to serve and consolidate on the laudable developmental strides initiated by the New Direction administration.

Edward Onoja is a former banker and private businessman who has been in Kogi politics since 1999. He contested for State House of Assembly in his Olamaboro Local Government on the platform of All Nigerians People’s Party.

He joined Yahaya Bello in 2014 to form Kogi Youth Arise group to deliver the state for APC in the presidential election which brought in President Muhammadu Buhari.

Chief Edward is also a very close ally of Governor Yahaya Bello and played a vital role in Bello’s emergence as Governor in 2015 after the death of Prince Abubakar Audu. He thereafter became the Chief of Staff to Governor Bello in his first tenure. In 2019, when Governor Yahaya Bello was seeking re-election, he decided to promote Edward from the office of Chief of Staff to run with him on a joint ticket as Deputy Governor on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) which they won massively.