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Faleke Will Be Replaced If Need Be – APC

David Folami — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:48:50 +0000

Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that James Faleke will be replaced as deputy governor-elect should the need arise. He said this in Abuja on Wednesday in an interaction with newsmen. Faleke, who was running mate to late Abubakar Audu in the Nov. 21 gubernatorial elections in Kogi, rejected the same position [...]

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Kogi APC Crisis: Faleke’s Tribunal Suit An Affront To The Authority Of The Party, Says Owotunse

Wale Adebayo — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 19:13:31 +0000

A human rights activist, Mr. Emmanuel Owotunse has condemned Hon. James Abiodun Faleke for approaching the tribunal over the choice of Alhaji Yahaya Bello as the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) to replace late Prince Abubakar Audu, saying Hon. Faleke’s action was an affront to the authority of the party. Speaking with Vanguard in Lokoja, [...]

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Kogi APC Crisis: Lagos PDP Urges Faleke To Quit NASS Now As He Is No Longer Fit To Be Called Honourable

Wale Adebayo — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:53:42 +0000

Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday questioned the continued representation of the people of Ikeja Federal Constituency in House of Representatives by Hon. James Faleke, who was the running mate to the late Abubakar Audu in the last Kogi state governorship election. The Lagos PDP accused Faleke, the All Progressives Congress (APC) [...]

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Kogi APC Crisis: Faleke Files Petition At Governorship Elections Tribunal

Kunle Atiba — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 13:59:44 +0000

Hon James Abiodun Faleke, who was the running mate to the late Abubakar Audu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in November 21 governorship poll in Kogi State, has filed a petition before the State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal. Faleke, accompanied by Mohammed Audu, son of the late Abubakar Audu, and lawyers, submitted the petition [...]

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Kogi APC Crisis: Faleke Challenges INEC’s Declaration Of Guber Poll Inconclusive Before Tribunal

Wale Adebayo — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 09:08:06 +0000

Hon. James Abiodun Faleke, the running mate to late Abubakar Audu of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 21 governorship election in Kogi State, has filed a petition at the State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal to challenge the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) decision which declared the election inconclusive. Faleke was accompanied by Mohammed Audu, son [...]

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Kogi APC Crisis: Why We Chose Bello As Audu’s Replacement – Odigie-Oyegun

Wale Adebayo — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 16:37:23 +0000

All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, yesterday, explained the party’s reason for choosing Alhaji Yahaya Bello as the party governorship candidate in Kogi State. He said the party was still making moves to reconcile those aggrieved with the party’s choice. The party picked Bello to replace its governorship candidate in Kogi State, [...]

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Kogi APC Crisis: Group Rejects APC’s Reconciliatory Move, Says Faleke Should Be Declared Governor-Elect

Wale Adebayo — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:52:45 +0000

Following the outcome of November 21 governorship election in Kogi State, the political crisis still continues. A group called “Kogi Patriots” has rejected a reconciliatory committee set up by the All Progressive Congress (APC) to resolve the crisis surrounding the November 21 governorship poll. In a statement by the group on Thursday, jointly signed by the national [...]

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Kogi November 21 Election: From Tragedy To Farce

Ade Adewale — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 09:23:02 +0000

Residents of Kogi State were still struggling to come to terms with the sudden death of Prince Abubakar Audu, their former governor and the guber candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC), who was on the cusp of returning to Lugard House for a record third stint, following his commanding showing in the November 21 election. [...]

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Kogi Supplementary Polls: Court Strikes Out PDP, Wada’s Suits Seeking To Stop The Rerun

Wale Adebayo — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 22:32:54 +0000

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) plans and those of its candidate in the November 21 inconclusive governorship election in Kogi State, Capt. Idris Wada (retd.) to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from going ahead with this Saturday’s supplementary election, have been struck out by the Federal High Court, Abuja. Justice Gabriel Kolawole while delivering [...]

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Reuben Abati: Sugabelly, Rape and Audu’s Sons

Wale Adebayo — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 22:09:17 +0000

You probably don’t know Sugabelly. I don’t know her either. But it is the twitter handle of a Nigerian lady: @sugabelly, who in the wake of the death of former Governor Abubakar Audu of Kogi State felt the urge to go public with her story. My foregrounding her/story as opposed to his/story, is further affirmation [...]

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Guber Candidate: Don’t Cause Crisis In Kogi, Audu/Faleke Campaign Spokesman Warns APC

Wale Adebayo — Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:41:23 +0000

The media head of the Abubakar Audu/James Faleke Campaign Organization, Dr. Tom Ohikere, has cautioned the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) against taking any action capable of plunging Kogi State into crisis. Ohikere, who gave the warning in Lokoja, the state capital on Saturday, specifically advised the national Chairman of the APC, Chief [...]

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IG-P Arase Condoles With Audu’s Family, Lauds Kogi Residents On Peaceful Elections

Wale Adebayo — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 21:28:00 +0000

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, has extended the Nigerian Police Force’s condolence to the family and friends of the late governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kogi State, Abubakar Audu. A statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Kolawole, said Arase prayed to God to give the late Audu’s [...]

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Abubakar Audu Wins Kogi State Governorship Election

Wale Adebayo — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 22:23:24 +0000

With the total numbers of votes cast in Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State counted, collated and declared, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu, has emerged winner of the keenly fought contest. To emerge winner, the APC candidate had to pay the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the same coin it paid [...]

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Ex-Governor Audu Wins Kogi APC Governorship Primaries | #News

Wale Adebayo — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 13:30:43 +0000

Ex-Governor Abubakar Audu has emerged winner of the governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress in Kogi State. In what turned out to be a keenly contested primary election on Saturday, Audu polled the highest votes to defeat his closest rival, Alh. Yahaya Bello. Declaring the results in the early hours of Sunday, the Chief [...]

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