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

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Gbak

HE OWNS THE KEY TO OUR LIFE, LIFE AND DEATH IS IN HIS HAND, ABOVE ALL, ALL POWERS BELONGS TO GOD. POLITICIANS BE WARNED.

Such is life.... RIP man

Power Power Power, even the sick are fighting for Power any way shals God help us

End time

Man propose God dispose!

We are all pencils in the hand of God!

This world is nothing, in a minute you're a champion, minutes later you're dead and forgotten...

Wow.This is painful.

Everyone wants to create good history, not bad history. I think he is the first man who won an election(apc will still win) and died before being sworn in. What a tragedy....

I always believe sahara reporters but this time around,I prayed they were wrong but unfortunately,he's gone.

RIP SIR.

Vomit blood?




PDP AT WORK!

Ngeneukwenu murdered him

If God no destine sumwhere for u, no mata hw hard u tru u will neva get dere

ALL POWER BELONGS TO THE ALMIGHTY GOD.

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

Campaign stress and trouble. RIP to Pa Audu

His Case reminds me of the rich yoruba proverb that says..... ""Mo fe d'ogun mo fe d'ogbon ile aye lo mo". God, don't let me die for my glory to be inherited by another person

He died of jazz!! The babalawo smoked oshogbo weed and blew the smoke into the air then shouted AUDU! AUDU!! AUDU!!! and..... The rest is on social media

so sad

Mtscheeeeeeeeew so hin don kpai before INEC declare inconclusive na hin people wan make am look lek of a way round. RIP PA. That hin young wife now..... Hmmmmm just be4 family fight beginbegin, she better arrange herself o

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Dis life is vanity upon vanity. may his soul RIP