Read Mr. James Abiodun Faleke's letter to the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman,
John Odigie-Oyegun rejecting his nomination as Alhaji Yahaya Bello's running mate in the December 5 Supplementary
Governorship election in Kogi State:
“Re: My Purported Nomination As
Deputy Governor”
“Information at my disposal from the National Secretary of our
party, the All Progressives Congress, and my telephone conversation with your
good self, confirmed to me that the party had issued INEC form and submitted my
name as running mate to Alhaji Yahaya Bello in the forthcoming unusual and
strange supplementary election scheduled for 5th December, 2015, covering 91
polling units in Kogi State to elect a “supplementary governor”.
“Mr. Chairman, you may recall that an election was conducted on
the 21st November 2015, in
which I was running mate to the late Prince Abubakar Audu: I therefore remain
fully committed to that joint ticket which received the blessings of the party
leadership, including your good self, evident from your attendance at the
campaign rallies to ensure total victory for your great party through which the
people of Kogi State massively and overwhelmingly voted for us.
*Oyegun
“Following the demise of my principal after the announcement of
results from the polling units, wards, local government areas and the state,
our party had highest number of votes of 240, 867 against PDP’s 199, 514, thus
creating a difference of 41, 353 votes between the two leading parties. On the
strength of this, I hereby state clearly that I remain the governor-elect of Kogi State
“I wish to put it on record that I was neither consulted by
anybody before my name was submitted as running mate to a man who has since the
conduct of primaries, abandoned the party, took the party to court, worked for
the PDP, thereby causing our party to lose his polling unit 80 votes to his
ally party PDPs 116, repeating 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 primaries, its trite that party primaries are conducted to produce
a candidate and once a candidate is produced, the congress, being an ad-hoc
tool for that purpose, should automatically extinguish.
“It is clear from this injustice, that our party is on the path
of rewarding disloyalty and discourage loyalty through this act of impunity for
which we all fought the PDP.
“It may also interest you Mr. Chairman Sir, that the said Yahaya
Bello, since the conduct of the primaries, had been aloof from party activities
as it is on record that he did not attend a single meeting or campaign rally of
the party.
“Mr. Chairman Sir, I am sure that it is neither in your
interest, nor that of the party in particular and the public in general to lord
an illegality on the people of Kogi
State
“Please, take note that I am not interested in surrendering the
mandate the people of Kogi
State
“I believe in the leadership of our great party to resolve this
in the shortest possible time, failure upon which I shall be forced to seek
redress in the court of law.”
Honourable James Abiodun Faleke
Faleke is right.
ReplyDelete