Embattled Kogi State deputy governor-elect, Hon. James Faleke, has described the role played by the National Chairman of All Progressive Congress, Chief John Oyegun in the emergence of Alhaji Yayaha Bello as Kogi governor as “anti-people”.
57-year-old Hon. Faleke criticised 77-year-old Oyegun during a telephone interview on Wednesday on Channels TV that was monitored by our correspondent.
He said: “I am speaking before Nigerians and I am making it very clear that nobody reached out to me. Nobody from our party’s national secretariat or the state secretariat of our party ever reached out to me on this issue,” Faleke said
“The only time they every reached out to me was on December 31… when the chairman of our party announced the decision of the National Working Committee to all of us to say the NWC had adopted Alhaji Yahaya Bello as the governorship candidate for the December 5 election.
“Thereafter, there was no consultation until today. I want to make it clear that the party chairman, Chief John Oyegun, that we saw as a father has decided to champion a cause that is anti-people. That is why we were not invited for the inauguration.
“For me I see what has happened in the party as a civilian coup d’état. It is a civilian coup d’état because if such a situation happens in the military, those behind it will face the firing squad.”
