BREAKING: Faleke Sues INEC, Makes Demands

Following the recent choice the All Progressives Congress made over who becomes a 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.

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Immediately the APC had declared that Yahaya Bello was 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 even as his supporters and those of Bello had a bloody clash.

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 eventually 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.

Asking the commission not to go ahead with the supplementary election, Faleke through Olanipekun had said: “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.

“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.”

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.

Source: Legit.ng