BREAKING: Faleke Takes INEC To Court, Makes Demands

Following the recent choice the All Progressives Congress made over who becomes the replacement of the late Prince Abubakar Audu as the party’s candidate in the November 21 election in Kogi state, the running mate, James Faleke, has on Tuesday, December 1, filed a suit at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.


In the suit, Faleke was demanding that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declare him as governor-elect, Premium Times reports.

Immediately the APC declared that Yahaya Bello had been chosen to be the replacement of the late Audu as the party’s governorship candidate, Faleke had publicly rejected the choice made by his party’s national leadership.

He had on Monday, November 30, threatened to go to court following the adoption.

The altercation revolving around the choice made and the rejection of the choice is coming after the death of Prince Audu on a Sunday, November 22, a day after the governorship poll had been held in the state and was declared inconclusive by the electoral commission.

However, it was further reported that Faleke also wrote INEC demanding the removal of his name as the running mate to Bello in the supplementary election coming up on Saturday, December 5.

Faleke said in the suit filed by his counsel, Wole Olanipekun, that contrary to the claim by the electoral body, the election was conclusive and that as the running mate to Audu, he should be declared winner.

Meanwhile, one of the sons of the late Audu has accused the national chairman of the party, John Oyegun, and the secretary to the government of the federation, Babachir David Lawal, of imposing Yahaya Bello on the people of Kogi against their wishes.

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