Kogi A4A Mobilises 700,000-Plus Votes for Tinubu Ahead of 2027 Elections

By Abah Benjamin Eneojoh
Government House, Lokoji

Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo, has attributed his administration’s ability to pay workers’ salaries promptly while executing infrastructure projects across the state to improved revenue allocation under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.

Ododo made this known on Wednesday during a meeting with the executive members of Arewa for Asiwaju (A4A), Kogi State Chapter, at the Government House Banquet Hall, Lokoja.

The governor explained that the increased resources available to the state had enabled his administration to fulfil its financial obligations to workers while sustaining ongoing development projects.

“We are paying salaries and still doing projects. Tinubu made it possible,” Ododo said, acknowledging the support of the President’s administration for Kogi State.

The meeting took place against the backdrop of ongoing infrastructure investments across the state, including the Kogi International Cargo Airport project at Zariagi, Adavi Local Government Area, which was recently flagged off by the Federal Government.

Speaking at the meeting, the State Coordinator of A4A, Pharm. Chief Abdulkareem Jamiu Mohammed (Asuku), presented the group’s organisational structure and explained its grassroots mobilisation strategy ahead of the 2027 general elections.

Asuku disclosed that the group was targeting 200 votes from each polling unit across Kogi State, with a projected total of 701,600 votes from the state’s 3,508 polling units.

He explained that A4A had established a comprehensive structure extending from the state level to individual polling units, with 10 representatives and 10 women representatives assigned to each polling unit.

The state executive structure is headed by Asuku, with Hon. Barikisu Ohunene Aliyu, Hon. Alfa Momoh Rabiu and Hon. Femi Stephen Owoniyi serving as Deputy State Coordinators for Kogi Central, East and West respectively.

The structure also includes a Director of Finance and Resource Mobilisation, Hon. Yakubu Siaka Adabenege; Director of Communication and Media, Hon. Kingsley Fanwo; and Deputy Director of Communication and Media, Ahmadu Jibril.

Other directorates include Women Affairs, headed by Hajia Abdulkarim Fatima; Youth Affairs, led by Comr. Jegede Onotu Abdulazeez; Student Affairs, headed by Comr. Rilwan Abubakar Obaje; and Business and Professional Affairs, led by Hon. Shehu Attah.

The group also appointed two Directors of Religious Affairs, Prophet Gideon Isah and Hon. Islameen Enesi Etudaiye; Director of Traditional Groups, Hon. Foluwasho O. Braimoh; and Director of Operations and Logistics, Dr. Abdullahi Ozomata.

Other appointments include Director of Eminent Personalities and Civil Servants, Hon. Baron Okwoli; Director of ICT, Hon. Lawal Hamisu Ahmed; Director of Civil Society, Comr. Mohammed Onudoga Sumaila; Director of Mobilisation, Hon. Abah Samuel Eleojo; and Director of Research and Strategy, Hon. Afolabi Raji.

The structure further includes Director of People Living With Disabilities, Hon. Arome Ibrahim; Director of Academic Community Mobilisation, Hon. Lawal Ozomata James; and Director of Creative and Entertainment Industry, Hon. Dauda Suleiman, popularly known as Hi-Speed.

Hon. Dr. Anthony Edogbo serves as the State Secretary, while the Women Affairs, Youth Affairs, Student Affairs, Business and Professional Affairs, Civil Society, Eminent Personalities and Mobilisation directorates also have designated deputy directors across the three senatorial districts.

Asuku said the group would embark on extensive grassroots engagements across the state, moving from one local government area to another and spending several days in each location to showcase the achievements of the Tinubu and Ododo administrations.

He added that projects executed by the Ododo administration, with support from the Federal Government, had provided the group with tangible development interventions to present to voters during its mobilisation activities.

The delegation also highlighted some of the governor’s projects, expressing confidence that the administration’s performance would strengthen its campaign message as members take their mobilisation efforts to communities across the state.

The meeting was attended by former Kogi State Deputy Governor and Board Member of the South East Development Commission, Chief Edward Onoja; the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Hon. Kingsley Fanwo; the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Chief Ali Bello; the Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Yusuf Umar Aliyu; and other political leaders and government officials.