The remains of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Candidate in the Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State, Abubakar Audu has been laid to rest in his hometown, Ogbonicha.
Audu died on Sunday while vote counting in the elections was still ongoing.
The burial rites were conducted by a team of Imams from across Igalaland.
Controversy had trailed the burial of the former governor when rumour filtered into town that he had resurrected. A prophet had earlier promised to revive Audu to life.
There was mild drama between the prophet and members of the Audu family who refused to let him in.
The youths of Ogbonicha broke the door to the room where Audu was laid to enable the prophet perform his ‘magic’.
The prophet however failed to resurrect Audu, prompting the youths to go berserk in search of the prophet”s head.
The burial was well attended as scores of the who-is-who in Nigerian politics as well as members of the business community were in Ogbonicha to give their last respect to the departed hero.
Many residents of Ogbonicha paid tribute to arguably their most illustrious son.
There was an ocean of tears when his body was lowered into the grave.
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