You can’t represent Lagos and Kogi, PDP tells Faleke:


The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has asked the lawmaker representing Ikeja federal constituency of Lagos State, Mr. James Faleke, who is also the deputy governor-elect in Kogi State to make up his mind on which state he actually represents.
The PDP said this in a statement by its chairman, Capt. Tunji Shelle (retd.), on Sunday.The party said Faleke, who has been battling for an executive position in Kogi State, had short-changed the people of Ikeja who voted for him on March 28, 2015.Faleke was the running mate of the late Kogi governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Abubakar Audu. Following Audu’s death, however, Mr. Yahaya Bello was picked as Audu’s replacement but Faleke maintains that he is the rightful successor to Audu and is in a legal battle with his party over the matter.The PDP therefore accused Faleke, the APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission of desperation, political immorality and gross violation of the spirit of the Electoral Law.

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