'Why we bestowed posthumous award on Audu'

The Kogi State government yesterday said the posthumous leadership award bestowed on the late All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu, was in recognition of his “unequalled contributions to the infrastructural development of the state”.

The Chief of Staff to the governor, Mr Edward Onoja, said this while reacting to comments credited to the son of the late leader, Mohammed Audu, who described the award as ‘self-serving and diversionary’.

Onoja said Governor Yahaya Bello bestowed the highest leadership award on the late Audu because “no past governor did as much as the deceased for the state.

“How does the award serve the governor, rather it serves the political family of the late Audu. It serves the memory of the late Audu, it serves the good people of Kogi-east and generality of Kogi people”, he said.

Edward said it would be unfortunate and illogical for anybody to think that the award had anything to do with the pending case at the Supreme Court