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Faleke Out, Olumoroti in

By Salihu Yazeed

In what turns out to be a saved heaven for Alhaji Yahaya Bello as known as Fairplus today at the APC national headquarters Abuja, Nigeria as APC national leaders stood their ground to maintain their decision to field AYB ahead of the December 5 governorship supplementary poll in a meeting that was well attended by both APC national leaders and kogi political shakers which have in it attendance, the Kaduna state governor, Mall Nasir El-Rufai, the APC national chairman Chief Odigie John Oyegun, kogi central senatorial district, Sen. M.S. Ohiare, kogi west senatorial district, Sen. Dino Malaye and a host of other pocketful political actors to officially announce and send their part substituted candidate to INEC ahead of the December 5 supplementary poll which was confirmed as received by the commission.

However, it was an ired moment for the late prince Abubakar Audu's running mate Chief James Abiodun Faleke in the November 21 governorship election which was marred by several irregularities in some part of the state and was later declared inconclusive by INEC as he disagreed with his party's decision to pick Bello over him and threatened to sue his party.

Whereas, earlier on today, Mr James Faleke had earlier picked his late principal's first son Mr Muhammed Audu as his running mate where he declared himself kogi governor elect owing to his late principal's sudden death at the eve of been declared the winner of the 21inconclusive election. The next political atmosphere in kogi after the supplementary election slated for December 5th could witness forth and back legal drama if Faleke's threat to APC is something to hold on to.

In addition, with this development, that is placing Mr Faleke completely out of the picture, news or rumour is already emerging that Mr Olusola George Olumoroti who also contested along side with Alhaji Yahaya Bello, Late prince Abubakar Audu, and others  under the platform of the All Progressive Congress in the August 29th APC primaries could be a possible replacement for Mr James Abiodun Faleke.

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