Gov Ododo Meets Kogi ‘Arewa for Asiwaju’ Group, Credits Improved Federal Allocation for Kogi’s Projects, Workers Welfare As Group Targets Over 700,000 Votes For Tinubu
By Abah Benjamin Eneojoh
Government House, Lokoja
Nov 11, 2026
Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo, has credited the improved revenue allocation under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration for his government’s ability to pay workers’ salaries promptly while executing infrastructure projects across the state.
Ododo stated this 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 said the increased resources available to the state had created room for his administration to meet its financial obligations to workers without abandoning development projects.
“We are paying salaries and still doing projects. Tinubu made it possible,” Ododo said, while acknowledging the support of the President’s administration for Kogi State.
The meeting came amid ongoing infrastructure investments in the state, including the Kogi International Cargo Airport project at Zariagi, Adavi Local Government Area, which the Federal Government recently flagged off.
Speaking at the meeting, the State Coordinator of A4A, Pharm. Chief Abdulkareem Jamiu Mohammed (Asuku), presented the group’s organisational structure and outlined its grassroots mobilisation strategy ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Asuku said the group is targeting 200 votes from each polling unit across Kogi State, projecting a total of 701,600 votes from the state’s 3,508 polling units.
He explained that A4A has established a 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 has 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 has 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, moving from one local government area to another and spending days in each location to showcase the achievements of the Tinubu and Ododo administrations.
He added that the projects executed by the Ododo administration, with support from the Federal Government, had provided the group with concrete development interventions to present to voters during its mobilisation activities.
The delegation also showcased some of the governor’s projects, expressing confidence that the administration’s performance would strengthen their campaign message as they take the mobilisation 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; Kogi State House of Assembly Speaker, Rt Hon. Yusuf Umar Aliyu and other political leaders and government officials.
