The running mate to late Abubakar Audu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to declare him governor elect.
James Faleke, in a November 26 letter to INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, insisted that under Section 187 of the 1999 Constitution, he was duly elected as deputy governor of Kogi State. While expressing sadness over the demise of his principal, Abubakar Audu, the deputy governorship candidate said INEC had no right under the law to declare the election inconclusive. He accused INEC of deliberately creating what he called “legal conundrum” and urged the APC not to be a party to the action. “In law and logic, no new candidate can inherit or be a beneficiary of the votes already cast, counted and declared by INEC before that candidate was nominated and purportedly sponsored,” Mr. Faleke wrote through his counsel, Wole Olanipekun.
“Assuming without conceding that INEC is even right to order a supplementary election, the votes already cast, counted and declared on Saturday, 25th November 2015, were votes for the joint constitutional ticket of Prince Abubakar Audu and our client. “Therefore, no new or ‘supplementary’ candidate can hijack, aggregate, appropriate or inherit the said votes.” In another letter to APC Chairman, John Oyegun, Mr. Faleke urged his party to distance itself from the “Greek Gift” being offered to it to nominate a new candidate for a planned supplementary election in 91 polling units. He said the election had already being won and lost, and that the party should rather support him in actualizing the mandate already given to APC and its candidates.
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Posted: at 26-11-2015 07:08 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Double wahala 4 deady body,nah the owner of deady body,singing baba 70 jejeli,abeg the pikin contest election wey him wan come rule,abi dem think say nah monarchy?
Posted: at 26-11-2015 08:24 PM (9 years ago) | Hero
Mr Faleke, u are think d oga on top no get hand for dis conspiracy? Dey there dey look. Dem go do u d more u look d less u see. Don't allow ur scheming APC to steal ur vote and rights and give it to a nameless mugun
Posted: at 26-11-2015 11:57 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero
All of these politican are evil. they have human feeling at all. this is getting out of hand. imagine the death dat never reach 2day you people are figthen for whom to replace the man.
Posted: at 27-11-2015 06:47 AM (9 years ago) | Hero
yomex4real at 27-11-2015 03:41 PM (9 years ago) (m)
Hmm! Hon. James Abiodun Faleke, I live in the same street ur maternal house is, in Ojodu Berger , which is a mess of all the streets around. Now tell me what in particular have u for poor Kogi State?
Posted: at 27-11-2015 03:41 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie
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