Sahara Reporters has learned that the governorship candidate
of the All Progressives Party (APC), Abubakar Audu died as early as 5 a.m.
Nigerian time on Sunday. He reportedly went into a state of coma before this
death.
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 the online news platform that
electoral officials knew of Mr. Audu’s death before they announced the results
of his election inconclusive on Sunday.
Source:
SaharaReporters
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