APC Leader Tinubu Takes A Stand On Kogi Election (Details)

Indications have emerged that leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were still divided over the choice of Alhaji Yahaya Bello as the party’s candidate for the Kogi supplementary governorship poll.

This is coming just as the INEC has given the APC until tomorrow (Tuesday) to present a replacement for its late governorship candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu, for Kogi supplementary election.

APC leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has taken a stand on who will replace Prince Audu.

While some APC chieftains are arguing that Yahaya Bello should be the candidate, even though he did not support late Prince Audu or the APC campaign, Asiwaju Tinubu and others loyal to him in the party are insisting that James Faleke (late Audu’s running mate) should complete what they started.

Bello who came second during the party’s governorship primaries on August 29, 2015 was favoured by some forces in the party to replace the late Audu after INEC say the election was inconclusive.

But top leaders of the party believe that James Faleke is the right man to step up having already won the poll with late Audu, if not for INEC's controversial verdict of inconclusive election in a poll that no other party can defeat the APC given the fact that only 25,000 voters in the affected areas have PVC.