As Faleke Rejects Kogi Deputy Governorship, Lagos Rejects Him

Running mate to late Prince Abubakar Audu who was Kogi state governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 21 election, James Abiodun Faleke is now at a political cross road.
While he had bluntly refused to accept his party’s position that he should be sworn-in next Wednesday, January 27, as Deputy Governor to Alhaji Yahaya Bello who was picked to replace late Audu, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate who contested the House of Representatives election for Ikeja federal constituency 1, Lagos state, Olakunle Okunola, has gone to court demanding that he should be sacked immediately from the National Assembly for alleged “double representative.”
In a suit marked FHC/L/CS/1680/15, Okunola is challenging the nomination of James Abiodun Faleke, by All Progressives Congress (APC), as its candidate for the House of Representatives election of March 28, 2015, representing the Ikeja Federal Constituency 1 of Lagos State.
Okunola is also challenging Faleke’ nomination by the APC, as deputy governorship candidate for the November 21, 2015, gubernatorial election of Kogi State, under the Ekinrin Ade Ward of Ijumu Local Government Area, Kogi state which he considers as a “violation of the law.”
Okunola is seeking an order of the court compelling Faleke to vacate his seat as a member of the House of Representatives, representing Ikeja Federal Constituency 1, forthwith from the date of the transfer of his membership and data by INEC from Lagos state to Kogi state.
He has requested for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from any further reversal or transfer of Faleke’s voting and membership data from Ekinrin-Ade Ward in Ijumu LGA of Kogi state to the Ikeja Federal Constituency 1 of Lagos state.
Meanwhile, James Faleke has insisted that he would not be deputy to the governor-elect, Yahaya Bello. [myad]