Trouble Unlimited For Re-Election Ambition As Yahaya Bello’s Fierce Critic Emerges Screening Committee Head!

Labule Thomas

From one trouble to another appears to be the case of the re-election ambition of Governor of Kogi state Yahaya Bello.

Yet to cut himself away from the demons of unpaid salaries, the Governor is facing another major threat.

The governor’s fierce enemy James Faleke has emerged the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Screening Committee in Kogi State.

The development comes in the wake of a harsh criticism of Bello’s administration and ambition by Faleke who is a Federal House of Representatives member.

Faleke in a recently released statement labeled the Bello administration as a ‘’failure’’ and insists that Bello’s re-election ambition will suffer the same fate.

Societynow.ng gathered that while Bello fumes over the emergence of Faleke as the head of the gubernatorial screening committee of his party in Kogi state, other aspirants particularly Mustapha ‘’Mona’’ Audu have expressed delight.

Mustapha is the son of Abubakar Audu, the gubernatorial candidate that died after winning the last gubernatorial election in Kogi state – before he was sworn in – for the APC.

Faleke was the deputy governorship candidate to late Audu but was unable to transform into elected governor based constitutional provisions that transferred the mandate to Bello who was the first runner up in the primary election that produced Audu as the gubernatorial candidate.

The political structure that won the election for the late Audu is said to be backing his son to become the next governor of Kogi state against Bello who allegedly alienated stakeholders within and outside of his party based on he is running the state.

‘’The other gubernatorial aspirants are happy about Faleke’s emergence as the Chairman of the screening committee because it is believed that it would curtail whatever out of the rules book plot Bello is plotting against them’’ societynow.ng learned.