The Deputy Governorship candidate in the 2015 elections in Kogi State and member representing Ikeja Federal Constituency, Hon. James Abiodun Faleke has pledged to offer his services to help deliver the much needed good governance that has eluded the confluence state.
Faleke made this known while responding to media reports that he has joined the race to replace Governor Yahaya Bello as his governorship posters flood the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a statement personally signed by Faleke on Thursday, the lawmaker said the renewed clamour for him to join the governorship race shows that an intervention is urgently required in Kogi state.
“I have received calls from some well meaning Kogites and Nigerians at large as to my posters being pasted across Kogi and Abuja calling on me to come and contest Kogi Guber Elections in the November 2019 Governorship Elections.
“I was surprised yesterday when the information got to me from the National Secretariat of our Party that my posters are on the walls of the secretariat in Abuja.
“To me it shows an intervention is urgently required in my state of birth and I want thank all for recognizing my ability and capacity to deliver the much needed good governance that has eluded the state.
“I have stated before and wish to restate now that what is before me and my colleagues is to support Rt Hon Femi Gbajabiamila in his speakership aspiration and represent the good people of Ikeja Federal Constituency.
“If in the nearest future, the people and leadership of our party both home and abroad requires my services in such capacity, I will be willing to offer myself for service.
“When in 2015, I accepted to be running mate to Late Prince Abubakar Audu, it was my conviction then that the late “Prince of the Niger” had a lot to offer the people. When he died, and I rejected the same position offered to me, it was also because I knew that there was no vision in the then incoming government. I believe I have been vindicated. God Almighty will direct our path and help,” the statement read.
