Kogi APC tackles Tinubu, Faleke over ministerial slot
Kogi APC tackles Tinubu, Faleke over ministerial slot Leaders of the All Progressives Congress in Kogi State have
vowed to clip the influence of a national leader of the party,
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in the north central region of the
country. They also vowed to reject James Faleke if
nominated as a replacement for the late Minister of State
for Labour, James Ocholi, who died in March last year in a
road accident.
The party called on President Muhammadu Buhari not to
accept Faleke’s nomination, saying it would cause crisis in
the party in the state. A statement jointly signed by the
leaders of the party from Kogi West, Alhaji Suleiman Ejibunu
and Chief Richard Asaje, and made available to newsmen in
Lokoja on Monday said the party would reject Faleke’s
nomination.
The statement read in part, “If at all Faleke and his
godfather, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, deserve any and not
the ministerial slot of Kogi State to avoid serious crisis in
the Kogi APC as such a move may lead to the exit of every
prominent, loyal and committed member of the party while
aggravating the fractionalisation of the party along many
divides.
“We are also unequivocally resolute to stop Tinubu’s
expansion into Kogi State or any state in the North-Central;
we are determined to push out all his cohorts from Kogi
come 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 leaders noted that James Faleke representing Lagos
State in the National Assembly was known to Kogi State
APC only during the governorship struggle when Tinubu
allegedly imposed him on APC in Kogi as the deputy
governorship candidate to late Prince Abubakar Audu.
The statement also read, “This generated a lot of discomfort
to the founding members of APC who built the party, fought
the then sitting government in all national elections and
won. However, we swallowed the pains to fight and win the
governorship election in the state.
“Giving him such an appointment will amount to providing
him fuel to fire on the breakup of APC in the state. Faleke
alongside Honourable Buba Jibril in the West Senatorial
Area of Kogi State have formed illegal party structures and
lay claim to illegal stakeholder structure for which a petition
is already before the national leadership of the party.”
The Kogi APC chiefs advised President Muhammadu Buhari
to find other means of compensating Faleke and not to
make him a minister representing Kogi State.
vowed to clip the influence of a national leader of the party,
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in the north central region of the
country. They also vowed to reject James Faleke if
nominated as a replacement for the late Minister of State
for Labour, James Ocholi, who died in March last year in a
road accident.
The party called on President Muhammadu Buhari not to
accept Faleke’s nomination, saying it would cause crisis in
the party in the state. A statement jointly signed by the
leaders of the party from Kogi West, Alhaji Suleiman Ejibunu
and Chief Richard Asaje, and made available to newsmen in
Lokoja on Monday said the party would reject Faleke’s
nomination.
The statement read in part, “If at all Faleke and his
godfather, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, deserve any and not
the ministerial slot of Kogi State to avoid serious crisis in
the Kogi APC as such a move may lead to the exit of every
prominent, loyal and committed member of the party while
aggravating the fractionalisation of the party along many
divides.
“We are also unequivocally resolute to stop Tinubu’s
expansion into Kogi State or any state in the North-Central;
we are determined to push out all his cohorts from Kogi
come 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 leaders noted that James Faleke representing Lagos
State in the National Assembly was known to Kogi State
APC only during the governorship struggle when Tinubu
allegedly imposed him on APC in Kogi as the deputy
governorship candidate to late Prince Abubakar Audu.
The statement also read, “This generated a lot of discomfort
to the founding members of APC who built the party, fought
the then sitting government in all national elections and
won. However, we swallowed the pains to fight and win the
governorship election in the state.
“Giving him such an appointment will amount to providing
him fuel to fire on the breakup of APC in the state. Faleke
alongside Honourable Buba Jibril in the West Senatorial
Area of Kogi State have formed illegal party structures and
lay claim to illegal stakeholder structure for which a petition
is already before the national leadership of the party.”
The Kogi APC chiefs advised President Muhammadu Buhari
to find other means of compensating Faleke and not to
make him a minister representing Kogi State.
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