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Faleke Sues INEC, Asks Court To Declare Him Kogi's Governor - Elect by shegxy9(m): 6:31am On Dec 02, 2015 |
The deputy governorship
candidate of the All
Progressives Congress in the
November 21 election in Kogi
State, James Faleke, on
Tuesday filed a suit at the
Federal High Court, Abuja,
demanding his declaration as
governor-elect.
The Independent National
Electoral Commission had
declared the election
inconclusive. It ordered a
supplementary election which
will hold on December 5.
Mr. Faleke had on Monday
threatened to go to court
following the adoption of
Yahaya Bello by the APC
national leadership as the
governorship candidate of
the party in the
supplementary election.
He also wrote INEC
demanding the removal of his
name as the running mate to
Mr. Bello in the
supplementary election.
Mr. Bello’s adoption at the
meeting of the National
Working Committee of the
party followed the death of
the former governorship
candidate, Abubakar Audu,
on November 22.
The party immediately
forwarded his name to INEC
as replacement for Mr. Audu
and that of Mr. Faleke as his
running mate.
In the suit filed by his
counsel, Wole Olanipekun,
Mr. Faleke, a serving member
of the House of
Representatives, said
contrary to the claim by the
electoral body, the election
was conclusive and that as
the running mate to Mr.
Audu, he should be declared
winner.
The court papers were served
on INEC Tuesday afternoon,
Mr. Faleke said.
The deputy governorship
candidate had written INEC
on November 26, insisting
that he was the governor-
elect following Mr. Audu’s
death.
He asked the Commission not
to go ahead with the
supplementary election.
“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 Mr.
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 been
won and lost, and that the party should
rather support him in actualizing the
mandate already given to APC and its
candidates.
According to the result declared by INEC,
Mr. Audu had the highest number of
votes thus leading the 21 other
candidates, including the incumbent
governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada, who
was the flagbearer of the Peoples
Democratic Party. |
Re: Faleke Sues INEC, Asks Court To Declare Him Kogi's Governor - Elect by Osirimononaye(m): 6:34am On Dec 02, 2015 |
2Days Ma Birthday..
No End Time. |
Re: Faleke Sues INEC, Asks Court To Declare Him Kogi's Governor - Elect by Chidexter(m): 6:35am On Dec 02, 2015 |
This is getting interesting |
Re: Faleke Sues INEC, Asks Court To Declare Him Kogi's Governor - Elect by Aufbauh(m): 6:38am On Dec 02, 2015 |
Faleke is playing safe and smart with his move by not joining issues directly with his party the APC, which i think their decision to replace Audu's candidature with Yahaya Bello is rightly & legally influenced by the good counsel of the AGF. I also shared in the line of argument that believes INEC erred by not declaring the late Audu as the outright winner of the kogi guber poll relying on her electoral guidelines instead of the nation constitution. |
Re: Faleke Sues INEC, Asks Court To Declare Him Kogi's Governor - Elect by opalu: 6:43am On Dec 02, 2015 |
If he had read the 48 Laws of Power, he would have agreed to remain a Deputy, thereafter secretly sponsor a young Kogite Lawyer to take the matter to court for proper interpretation. Because as it is now, if no judgement is given to his favour on Friday, he cannot be a Dep Gov since he has rejected it. That is a 50-50 chance. But this way of saying it is either Gov or nothing is a 100-0 chance |
Re: Faleke Sues INEC, Asks Court To Declare Him Kogi's Governor - Elect by tafabaloo(m): 6:48am On Dec 02, 2015 |
Kkkk |
Re: Faleke Sues INEC, Asks Court To Declare Him Kogi's Governor - Elect by oluseyiforjesus(m): 6:52am On Dec 02, 2015 |
Ok |
Re: Faleke Sues INEC, Asks Court To Declare Him Kogi's Governor - Elect by hammariise(m): 6:54am On Dec 02, 2015 |
Why by any means be it a legal or illegal Nigerians wanna be in power that doesn't belongs to them. Lord ve mercy |
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