I could recall that after the Tribunal judgment that dismissed the application of Hon. James Faleke to become the governor of Kogi state having being the running mate to late Prince Abubakar Audu, I, having seen that James Faleke’s case lacks merit, called on my namesake to shun people’s advice to go for appeal court and join the developmental train of the governor in an article titled “My advice to James Faleke”.
In the article, I categorically state the consequence of going to appeal court ranging from loss of political value to public humiliation. But my namesake paid deaf ear to my advice and forged ahead to appeal court and then to supreme court. Even some of his supporters called to warn and threaten me in that regard. Since then, I remained silent to watch how the whole political scenario will turn to favour him because I know that even a lay man will never declare James Faleke the winner of November 21st and December 5th Kogi state governorship election.
Now, he has lost both governorship and deputy governorship seats to Alhaji Yahaya Bello and Chief Simon Achuba respectively but the question is “What next for this political icon of our time?” Some persons are already advising him to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to seek redress while others are calling on him to put in place a political structure that would unseat Governor Yahaya Bello in 2019 governorship election.
Now My Take
If he (Faleke) joins the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he will end up killing in entirety his political relevance in the state as there are many political juggernauts he needs to contend with to even get the party ticket for the 2019 governorship election. If he wants to stand on his own to build a political structure that would unseat Governor Yahaya Bello in 2019, he would be heading towards unrealizable aspiration because he will need to put more energy and finances to fight the sitting governor who will like to complete his two terms tenure.
What my Honourable Faleke should do now is to join the political train of Governor Yahaya Bello, let him swallow his pride and seek for reconciliation with the governor. He should work to support his 2019 aspiration and enter into an agreement with the governor to support him in 2023. But before then, he can come to Kogi West in 2019 to contest senatorial seat at least to gain ground against 2023 because presently he has no political structure in the three senatorial zones to contest for Kogi state governor come 2019.
Once again, I have spoken!
James Mohammed writes from Ajaokuta (08153744780)
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