Bello to get deputy soon - Aide

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State

 

Mr Kingsley Fanwo, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, yesterday, said that deputy governor would emerge after consultations with lawyers and leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Fanwo, who fielded questions on a live radio programme on Ray Power Radio, said: “The governor will listen to the lawyers and the party. In due course, a deputy governor will emerge.”

He said so when asked what his principal would do, since Mr John Faleke, the preferred deputy governor has refused to accept the position.
He dismissed the allegation made by Faleke’s media aide, Mr Duro Meseko, that the choice of Bello as a governorship candidate was wrong because he worked against the party after he lost at the gubernatorial primary election.
He said that Bello was instrumental to the success of the APC in Kogi State during the 2015 general elections.
He advised Faleke’s aide to be factual in his arguments, alleging that Faleke, too, did not work for the party during the 2015 general elections as he was then a House of Representatives candidate in Lagos State.
Speaking during the same programme, the director of media and publicity of Audu/Faleke Campaign, Hon. Duro Meseko, insisted that the election of November 21, 2015, in which he (Faleke) ran as running mate to the late Prince Abubakar Audu was already won and lost.
Meseko wondered why the electoral body handled the Kogi scenario differently when the winner of the governorship election in Bayelsa State was announced, despite the fact that the number of cancelled votes was higher than the margin between the leading candidate and the runner-up.