The national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metu has called on the deputy gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressive Congress in the Kogi election to remain calm.
Metu in a conversation with Naij.com said James Falake’s move to side-line the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare him winner of Saturday’s election in Kogi is inappropriate.
Metu said: “Well It is completely inappropriate of him, he is coming out too soon after the death of his boss; he should be in mourning, mourning the candidate that would have made him deputy.”
He said the move by the deputy gubernatorial candidate would only raise suspicions about him and the death of the late APC Kogi state flag bearer, Abubakar Audu.
He said: “For Falake, the deputy gubernatorial candidate, let him keep cool and stay where God has put him, let him take it easy and wait for God’s time. That is our warning to him, he appears to be overly excited and being unduly happy about the demise of his boss.”
“The mature and crucial thing for him to do is to keep quiet and follow the process, he should be much more respectful to his departed boss than engaging in opportunism. Otherwise, he would raise suspicion on whether he is celebrating the death of his boss,”Metu said.
Following the death of Audu on Sunday, November 22, the electoral body declared the kogi election inconclusive with about 91 polling units yet to conduct elections.
Since his death, his deputy, Falake has written to INEC to declare him the governor-elect for the state.
But the PDP scribe said following Audu’s death, the APC no longer has a candidate and that INEC should declare the party’s candidate, Idris Wada winner.
“The truth is that APC has no candidate, and having no candidate, PDP should be declared winner because Wada has the highest number of votes and it satisfies the two third requirement, so, he should be declared the winner.
The gap of the 49,000 votes for the supplementary election is less than the gap between Wada and next candidate. So, we believe that there is no need for a supplementary election,” Metu said.
He said: “Wada should be declared the winner, that is why we headed to court and we know that the judiciary would obey the laws of our land. We will get victory, Wada will be declared.”
Metu also said that the views of the electoral body and the APC on the Kogi election is inconsequential as the party has taken the matter to the court.
“The INEC and APC are no more important, the matter has gone to the court and justice would be done. The opinion of INEC is longer important, it is the judiciary that will make pronouncement on the matter,” he said.
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