As people of Kogi state are still waiting to Know who will be the Deputy to Governor Yahaya Bello , a group, Kogi Progressive Alliance for Good Governance, KPAGG has warned the state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello against replacing Hon. Abiodun Faleke with Hon. Simon Achuba as deputy governor, saying such decision is not in the overall interest of the party and the state. This was contained in a statement signed by the president of the group, Mr. Sunday Adejoh and the secretary, Mr. Alimi Rotimi, and made available to newsmen in Lokoja yesterday.
The group wondered why the governor would be insisting on the choice of Hon. Achuba when the leadership of the party has ratified Hon. Alex Akoje, stressing that doing anything contrary would be unwise and unacceptable. The group which membership drew from the defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party, Action Congress of Nigeria and Congress for Progressive Change across the 21 local government areas of the state further noted that the governor being the product of party supremacy should listen to the voice of reason.
The group also posited that they decided to support the governor in spite of the circumstance that trailed his emergence because they strongly believed in party supremacy, maintaining that shunning the advice of the party hierarchy on the choice of a deputy for the state would be counter -productive. The statement further stated that Hon. Achuba who joined the All Progressives Congress in October last year cannot be chosen ahead of core party men who have been in opposition for a very long time and worked assiduously towards the victory of APC in the last governorship poll. It stressed that being a former candidate of defunct CPC and APC in the 2011 and 2015 House of Assembly polls respectively for Ibaji state constituency as well as co-ordinator of President Buhari in Idah federal constituency in both 2011 and 2015 elections, Hon. Akoje has paid his dues as a loyal party man.
The statement therefore stressed the need for the elders of the party in the state to prevail on the governor to do the right thing by presenting the name of Hon. Alex Akoje to the state assembly for ratification in the interest of justice, fairness and equity.
Credit: National Mirror
