It is Illegal to Nominate Me as Running Mate to Bello- Faleke Tells INEC- Declare Me as Governor Now
Category: Kogi News
According to reports from various media, moves by the All Progressives Congress to resolve the crisis created by
the death of its governorship candidate in Kogi State, Prince Audu
Abubakar, might have failed.
Following the party's decision on Friday to pick Mr. Yahaya Bello as a
replacement for the late governorship candidate, the APC had contacted
leaders in the three senatorial districts of the state to rally support
for Bello.
However, the running mate to the late governorship candidate, Faleke had on Thursday written the
Independent National Election Commission and the APC, asking to be
declared the state’s governor-elect.
A member of the party’s National Working
Committee, who confided in The PUNCH, said, “I can confirm to you that
we are trying to resolve the crisis created by our decision on Bello. We
are trying to reach out to Faleke and the Audu’s camp. Honestly, we
have not succeeded. Faleke is not ready to withdraw his demand and many
people are insisting on Audu’s son, Mohammed.”
He said the party had planned to resolve the crisis before Monday when the decision on Bello would be announced.
According to him, the leaders are hopeful that the crisis would be resolved before Tuesday.
But Faleke said the
party had not reached out to him, adding that he was not prepared to
negotiate his demand that INEC should declare him the governor-elect of
the state.
He stated that he would continue to
oppose the scheduled December 5 supplementary election and the decision
of the APC in the state to pick Bello as the replacement for Audu.
Faleke, who spoke exclusively with The PUNCH on Sunday, debunked claims that the party had reached out to him and had appealed to him to accept Bello.
Describing the claims as “false, not
true”, Faleke added that he had written the National Chairman of the
party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, a second letter to protest the
nomination of Bello.
He said, “All these talks about the APC
reaching out to me are unfounded. Nothing like that has happened. They
have not approached me. It is false and not true.
“In any case, what purpose will that
serve? I have made my position very clear in the letters I wrote to INEC
and the national chairman of the party.
“I have written a second one, and I am
saying that the nomination of Bello is wrong; we won’t accept it. We
stand by the position as stated in those letters.
“And for the benefit of doubt, I am on
this project with (Mohammed Audu)) the son of my late boss. We are
working together in opposing this nomination of Bello.”
Responding to a specific question on
whether INEC had replied his letter in which he asked to be declared as
the governor-elect, Faleke told The PUNCH that he had yet to hear from the electoral umpire.
“They have not replied me. Nothing has been heard from them.
“But, what is important is that I have given my position on this issue and nothing will change it”, he added.
Meanwhile, Faleke has described as
illegal his nomination as the running mate to Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who
was substituted for the late Audu.
Faleke, in a letter to the National
Chairman of the APC, dated November 27, 2015, also described Bello as a
disloyal party member, whom he accused of working for the opposition
Peoples Democratic Party during the November 21 governorship election.
He described the arrangement to
substitute Audu with Bello as unjust, adding that he was never consulted
before his name was submitted to the Independent Electoral Commission
as Bello’s running mate for the Saturday’s supplementary election.
His letter to Odigie-Oyegun read in
part, “I wish to put it on record that I was neither consulted nor
informed by anybody before my name was submitted as running mate to a
man who has, since the conduct of the primary, abandoned the party, took
the party to court, worked for the PDP, thereby causing our party to
lose his polling unit – 88 votes to his ally party, the PDP’s 116,
repeating the same feat at the ward level with APC scoring 1,146 to
PDP’s 2,058.
“While it is true that the said Alhaji
Yahaya Bello participated in our party’s primary, it is trite that party
primaries are conducted to produce a candidate, and once a candidate is
produced, the congress, being an ad hoc tool of the party for that
purpose, should automatically extinguish.
“It is clear from this injustice, that
our party is on the path of rewarding disloyalty and discouraging
loyalty through this act of impunity for which we all fought the PDP.”
Mohammed, who is the eldest son of the
late Audu, said he was not aware of that anyone had been picked as a
replacement for his late father.
Flanked by the running mate to his
father, Faleke, he labeled such move (to pick Bello as a replacement for
the late Audu) as backyard move.
Mohammed, who declined to speak further
on the issue because the occasion was the 8th day fidau for his father
at Oghonicha in Ofu Local Government Area, however, promised to speak on
the issue at a later date.
He said, “Our mission here is to pray
for the repose of his soul. It is too soon to be discussing politics. I
will like us to focus more on the mourning.
“As you can see, people are still wearing long faces.”
Source: The Punch
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