The All Progressives Congress (APC) deputy governorship candidate in Kogi State, Mr. James
Abiodun Faleke has said he will not attend the swearing in ceremony with Alhaji Yahaya Bello on
January 27, 2016. Faleke, who stated this yesterday in Kabba at a
meeting of APC stakeholders from Kogi West senatorial district, said this was in furtherance of
an earlier letter to the national leadership of the party not to work with Bello, the governor-elect.
The politician, who reacted to resolutions reached at the meeting said he will pursue the legal
option to a logical conclusion, adding that the Audu/Faleke ticket remained intact and unchanged.
“I will not disappoint late Prince Abubakar Audu. I, James Abiodun Faleke, will not be there for the
swearing in if we don’t finish the case before January 27, 2016.
“Nobody consulted me before making me a deputy to Bello. Bello, too, did not consult me. I have
made my position known to the party leadership on this. I am not ready to betray and disappoint
late Audu,” he said. Governor Idris Wada’s tenure ends on January 27,
2016. Regardless, Faleke exonerated President
Muhammadu Buahri from the crisis, saying the president he knows cannot be a party to injustice
and outright violation of the rule of law. In a related development, Bello has been warned
not to celebrate just yet. This was the opinion of former presidential
candidate of the National Action Council (NAC), Dr. Olapade Agoro, and a legal practitioner, Mr.
Musibau Ajetunbi, at a public forum in Ibadan, yesterday.
They argued that Faleke could lay claim to the 240,867 votes garnered by Audu, before the
election was declared inconclusive because he holds a joint ticket with Audu, while Wada, who
also polled 199,514 votes prior to the supplementary election, could also claim that APC
did not have valid candidate for the supplementary election held on December 5 and
the fact that he came second at the end of the exercise as a valid candidate.

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