Ministerial Appointment: Kogi APC rejects Faleke as Ocholi’s replacement

The All Progressives Congress, APC in Kogi State has called on President Muhammadu Buhari not to appoint Hon. James Faleke as Minister from the State to replace the late Ocholi, saying such move will bring serious crisis to the party in the State, Our Kogi State Correspondent reports.

This was contained in a statement jointly signed and released to journalists yesterday in Lokoja, the State capital by the leaders of the party from Kogi West, Alhaji Suleiman Ejibunu and Chief Richard Asaje.

According to the statement, they will not allow Faleke, a serving member of Federal House of Representatives, representing Lagos State, who lost power in the State to fill the vacant position of State Ministerial slot.

“If at all Falake and his godfather, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, deserve any post, it is not the ministerial slot of Kogi State, in order to avoid serious crisis in the State APC as such move may lead to exit of prominent, loyal and committed members of the party, while also aggravating the fractionalization of the party along many divides. We are also unequivocally resolute to stop Tinubu’s expansion into the state or any state in the North-Central, we are determined to push out all his consults from the state in 2018/2019. It is a task that must be done through all legal/political means. They have failed and they will continue to fail,” the statement noted”, the statement declared.

According to the party leaders, “Faleke, representing Lagos State in the National Assembly was known to Kogi State APC only during the governorship struggle when Tinubu imposed him on the state APC as the Deputy Governorship candidate to late Prince Abubakar Audu. This generated a lot of discomfort to the founding members of APC who built the party and fought the then sitting government in all national elections and won. However, we swallow the pains to fight and win the governorship election in the State”.

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