SaharaReporters has 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 told SaharaReporters 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

http://saharareporters.com/2015/11/22/how-apc-guber-candidate-abubakar-audu-kogi-died

Alams of Bayelsa-

Audu of Kogi-

Allison Maduekwe?

Life has thought me that most tragedies, usually occur at the door mouth of success.

God bless his Corrupt soul.

Hope he didn't die with the 11 billion Naira he admitted to have stolen.

look @ the kind of apc fielded as a governorship candidate, someone that have looted billions of naira in kogi as a former governor and also a living dead beign, anyway rip to him

When?

The race is not for the swift nor the battle for the strong.

I suspect "ota piapia"

Kogi state has just been freed from a disaster waiting to happen. Wada is a vegetable when it comes to governance but APC fielding Audu makes one wonder what kind of change is this party promoting.
I think his death is a blessing in disguise as the deputy who will carry on the mandate won't be as corrupt as Audu.
I did my nysc in that state and I can say the state has been totally ripped off by years of PDP miss-rule. The indigenes need to sacrifice tribe on the alter of development and begin to hold their governors accountable going forward.

douchesnozzle:
Kogi state has just been freed from a disaster waiting to happen. Wada is a vegetable when it comes to governance but APC fielding Audu makes one wonder what kind of change is this party promoting.
I think his death is a blessing in disguise as the deputy who will carry on the mandate won't be as corrupt as Audu.
I did my nysc in that state and I can say the state has been totally ripped off by years of PDP miss-rule. The indigenes need to sacrifice tribe on the alter of development and begin to hold their governors accountable going forward.

well said