₦airaland Forum

danny56:
U no fear God What is there to be completed about already won election? Can 25 000 PVC voters overtake 41000 leading margin? Moreover accredited voters are just 19000. Even if all 19000 voters vote for other parties without voting a dime for APC..... APC will still win. Faleke has two choice here else he will be used and dumped.
(1) he should withdraw himself for all votes to be invalid.
(2) he should sue INEC for the acclaimed error.

starG7:
Oga tinubu how market sir?

MadCow1:
So even with the rape allegation hanging over him, he still got picked.



APC has really lost it.

osazeeblue01:
Tinubu how far? Your plans has failed again. If i were u i will just focus in that state called LAGOS period than wasting your energy. Kogi state no be Lagos state.

danny56:
U no fear God What is there to be completed about already won election? Can 25 000 PVC voters overtake 41000 leading margin? Moreover accredited voters are just 19000. Even if all 19000 voters vote for other parties without voting a dime for APC..... APC will still win. Faleke has two choice here else he will be used and dumped.
(1) he should withdraw himself for all votes to be invalid.
(2) he should sue INEC for the acclaimed error.

MadCow1:
So even with the rape allegation hanging over him, he still got picked.



APC has really lost it.

Ciscogod:
In a sane society , faleke is the best candidate. 90% of the election is done.

I just like faleke spirit. He killed mediocrity. He's not a low self esteem man

anonimi:
You like an electoral criminal

raumdeuter:
I disagree. Boni Haruna and Goodluck Jonathan did not participate in primaries before taking over the mantle of their bosses

The ticket was an Audu-Faleke ticket and since one half is gone, the other should take over

What right has Bello who decamped to another party and actively campaign aganst APC have over the APC ticket

Ciscogod:
Not so my bro.

I'm not from kogi.

Picture yourself as someone else running mate. Having won 90% of the vote on that same ticket.

chukwudi44:
That is exactly what Tinubu is planning with ordinary commissioner Osinbande!!

rajoys:
You people magnify Tinubu too much and make him to be larger than life. What concern Jagaban with Kogi? Was he the one that pair Audu and Faleke? some months ago, Senate President Saraki was stone in Ilorin at the prayer ground and some people are shouting Tinubu is behind it when Jagaban and other dignitary were observing their own prayer peacefully in Lagos. Leave this Asiwaju Tinubu alone and he will naturally become less and less relevant in the scheme of things. But if u people keep on attaching what happen in various states across the nation to him even if he has nothing to do with such, he will become more and more powerful.

PassingShot:
He didn't participate in the primaries and that violates the electoral act. If APC fields him, PDP will explore the obvious misstep. Had it been that the election was concluded, Faleke will be in prime position to be governor. Unfortunately, as it is, election has not been done in the eyes of the law. As such Faleke cannot be used.

gretblue:
Are you in another trend? Or you miss your ways? Where did you get the information from that Yahaya bello had any allegation of rape.or you are here with your mischievous information as usual.Or could it be you are high on PDP wadata plaza weed?

PassingShot:
He didn't participate in the primaries and that violates the electoral act. If APC fields him, PDP will explore the obvious misstep. Had it been that the election was concluded, Faleke will be in prime position to be governor. Unfortunately, as it is, election has not been done in the eyes of the law. As such Faleke cannot be used.

linearity:
All that does not matter, what matters is INEC declared the elections inconclusive...had INEC declared Audu a winner, we will not be debating all these, because Faleke would have been on his way to be the next Govornor.

Secondly, even if Faleke withdraws; the votes cast cannot be invalidated because in Amaechi vs INEC, the Supreme Court have ruled that, vote cast are for the party and not necessarily for a specific candidate, so APC would have easily chosen another running mate for Bello, so it will be Yahaya's lost.

Thirdly, Yahaya can never be the Govornor, since he did not participate in the primaries, the electorate laws forbides him from becoming the Govornor, so if he takes PDP to court and by some miracles he wins, the best case scenario will be new elections, there is no scenario that will make him inherite the votes already cast and through them became a legally binding Govornor, even if APC does that, they will lose the Govornorship to PDP through the court system.

Fourthly, Yes Yahaya can sue INEC for some errors, the truth is that, INEC would have easily called the election for Audu and declare him the winner because, it is impossible for PDP to win the rescheduled election giving the small amount of registered voters, but the reality is INEC did not do that and that call is subject to INEC's discretion i.e. They did not err or violate any law by not declaring Audu the winner, in essence you cannot sue them over an action the law have given them discretion over, so Faleke will come back empty handed.

So, Faleke's only choice here is to remain the debuty or withdraw his candidacy and save any legal fees, he intend spending.

PassingShot:
He didn't participate in the primaries and that violates the electoral act. If APC fields him, PDP will explore the obvious misstep. Had it been that the election was concluded, Faleke will be in prime position to be governor. Unfortunately, as it is, election has not been done in the eyes of the law. As such Faleke cannot be used.

gretblue:
Then he Faleke becomes the utmost loser.Faleke political popularity is Unkown in kogi state.He cant win a local government election in Kogi state talkless of a govship election.presenting Faleke is like handling over of the Apc victory to Wada at the tribunal because faleke never participated in Apc primary election.

raumdeuter:
If Faleke that was on the ticket cannot take over then what right does Bello who wasnt on the ticket and actually worked against the Audu-Faleke ticket to take over and benefit from what he did not contribute in any way to

Holyman3:
Animal. Yar adua died while in office. which office did Audu die?

Yoruba dullard.

dustmalik:
As an Ebira man, i'm happy that we are on the verge of producing a governor after 16 years into the fourth republic. But, as an upright man, i believe the decision as to whom should succeed Audu, should have been left for the supreme court to make, since both the constitution and the electoral Act never envisaged this situation. Therefore, Inec and the AGF shouldn't have reached a decision on their own.

raumdeuter:
If Faleke that was on the ticket cannot take over then what right does Bello who wasnt on the ticket and actually worked against the Audu-Faleke ticket to take over and benefit from what he did not contribute in any way to

raumdeuter:
Why is Faleke a problematic choice

raumdeuter:
If Faleke that was on the ticket cannot take over then what right does Bello who wasnt on the ticket and actually worked against the Audu-Faleke ticket to take over and benefit from what he did not contribute in any way to

dustmalik:
As an Ebira man, i'm happy that we are on the verge of producing a governor after 16 years into the fourth republic. But, as an upright man, i believe the decision as to whom should succeed Audu, should have been left for the supreme court to make, since both the constitution and the electoral Act never envisaged this situation. Therefore, Inec and the AGF shouldn't have reached a decision on their own.

Teryfik:
I smell ethnicity War in KOGI

linearity:
PassingShot is correct, if APC make Faleke the candidate they will to PDP in the court, because Faleke did not participate in the primaries as required by law.

The cases you cited are not similar to the one at hand and as PassingShot had noted; if INEC had declared Audu, the winner of the election before he passed, even before he was sworn in, constitutionally Faleke would have been the neck Govornor and that situation would had be been similar to the cases you cited.

I do not think APC like this choice, but legally they have been boxed into a corner donot have many viable alternatives that will stand the test of the law. Note that, regardless of this choice by APC, PDP will still go to court after the election, so knowing that, it will be foolish for APC to weaken their chances of winning.