Hon. FALEKE Honoured At Metropolis Individuals Awards

On Sunday twenty eighth April, 2024, Metropolis Individuals honoured Hon. Abiodun James Faleke for his exceptional achievements as a federal lawmaker in Abuja. A lot of his constituents within the Ikeja Federal Constituency have regularly instructed Metropolis Those who he has executed lots for them. They usually have motive to say so. All of them say the proof of his efficiency will be see throughout his federal constituency, from Photo voltaic gentle, to branded buses, street building, healthcare clinics, hospitals, boreholes and water era and fixed empowerment for the poorest of the poor.
He’s always touching lives and serving to all of the SME’s to develop their companies.
It’s a testimony to his grassroot recognition that plenty of the buses (Korope) Ikeja Federal Constituency, all have Hon. Faleke’s enter. until right now, most of the buses have his images and title on it. Not solely has he executed properly as a lawmaker, he has additionally confirmed himself to be an excellent get together man. He has been a valued member of the APC and he’s the top of one of many huge factions controlling Lagos APC.
Over the last Basic Elections Faleke performed a precious function within the Presidential marketing campaign that introduced Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to energy. He campaigned tirelessly and sooner or later, President Tinubu publicly counseled Hon. Faleke on the palace of the Oba of Lagos. The President requested the Lagos King to assist him Faleke for his indefatigable function. He was instructed to face up for recognition.
The heroic function that Faleke has performed in each the politics of Lagos & Kogi is limitless. Many don’t know he began politics early. Abiodun James Faleke, born on 25 December 1959 is a Enterprise administration and Logistics guide. He’s a politician and a member of Home of Representatives from the industrial hub metropolis of Lagos. In his early profession, Faleke labored in senior managerial positions with a number of high-profile firms. He was with Aluminium Manufacturing Firm of Nigeria (ALUMCO) PLC as Buying Supervisor And in early 2000, he moved his companies to Crown Brokers Ltd as Industrial Supervisor.
Faleke joined lively politics in 2003 after Ahmed Bola Tinibu, then governor of Lagos State appointed him the primary Government Secretary of the newly created Ojodu Native Council Improvement Space (LCDA) of Lagos State.
In 2011, Faleke received a vote to characterize Ikeja Federal Constituency of Lagos State on the Home of Representatives. In 2015, he ran on a joint ticket as deputy governorship candidate to Abubakar Audu in his house state of Kogi. They received nearly all of votes solid within the keenly contested election displacing Individuals’s Democratic Celebration, PDP for the primary time in additional than a decade with a cushty profitable margin. However Abubakar Audu died shortly earlier than the official declaration of the outcomes. Their get together, the All Progressives Congress, APC then transferred the votes to Yahaya Bello who was first runner-up within the get together’s major election. Faleke challenged the choice of the get together as much as the Supreme Courtroom however misplaced.
Lets let you know extra. Faleke was born in Ekinrin Adde in Ijumu Native Authorities Space within the outdated Kabba Province. With the creation of Kogi State in 1991, Ijumu Native Authorities Space turned part of Kogi West. Faleke had his early schooling in Ijumu. He’s an outdated pupil of Abdulazeez Atta Memorial School, Okene. In 1986, he completed from Kaduna Polytechnic with a Larger Nationwide Diploma (HND) in Buying and Provide Administration with an award of the perfect pupil of his class with Higher Credit score.
He holds a grasp’s diploma (MBA) in Enterprise Administration with administration as the main focus from Imo State College, Owerri in 2003. He’s a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Buying Provide (CIPS), London, and Fellow, Institute of Public Administration (IPA).
Between 1986 and 2003, Faleke labored in a number of administration positions in logistics- procurement, clearing and forwarding, warehousing, distribution and building. In 1986, throughout his Nationwide Youth Service, Faleke was a Buying Expediter on the Nationwide Orthopaedic Hospital, Lagos. He was Materials Supervisor at Kayo Meals Restricted, Ilupeju, Lagos earlier than transferring to Tate Industries Plc as Buying, Clearing, Distribution and Industrial Supervisor. Faleke additionally served as Buying supervisor at Air Liquid Plc, and Aluminium Manufacturing Firm of Nigeria (ALUMCO) PLC ending his logistics and administration profession with Crown Brokers Ltd as Industrial Supervisor in 2003.
Faleke’s political profession began in 2003 along with his appointment as pioneer Government Secretary of Ojudu Native Council Improvement Space (LCDA) of Lagos State. He was on this place in an interim capability between November 2003 and April 2004, when he was elected substantive chairman of the native authorities. He held this workplace for 2 phrases ending in 2011.
In 2006, he received a vote to grow to be Chairman of Convention 57, (the physique of Native Authorities Chairmen) in Lagos State till 2011, when his tenure as Ojodu LCDA Chairman ended. Faleke throughout this era held assignments on the Lagos State Electoral Reform Committee and the Governor’s Advisory Committee of Lagos State.
Faleke was elected to Nigeria’s Federal Home of Representatives in 2011, to characterize Ikeja Federal constituency of Lagos State. He’s recognized for his good contributions to debates in the home. He was chairman of the Home Committee on Anti-Corruption, Nationwide Ethics and Values, and member of home committees on Public Procurement, MDGs, Inside, Public Accounts, Science and Expertise, and the Home Committee on the Petroleum Subsidy Probe.
Faleke sponsored quite a few payments, together with the NYSC Act Modification Invoice, which proposed life insurance coverage protection for NYSC members, a invoice prohibiting the sale and use of army uniforms because of the attendant safety dangers and, nonetheless specializing in the nation’s safety challenges, he sponsored one other movement on the necessity to shut over 1,400 unlawful border routes to curb insurgency.
Faleke was deputy governorship candidate to Abubakar Audu within the November 2015 governorship election in Kogi State. They ran on a joint ticket sponsored by All Progressives Congress, APC. Audu and Faleke campaigned for votes throughout the 21 native authorities areas of the state with populist agenda and promise to enhance residing commonplace of the individuals.
Audu and Faleke have been in snug lead from official outcomes from the 21 native authorities areas of the state. Election victory celebration was underway when Abubakar Audu’s dying was introduced. Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC then declared the election inclusive.
In response to outcomes declared by the Returning Officer, Emmanuel Kucha (Vice-Chancellor of the College of Agriculture, Makurdi), Abubakar Audu/James Abiodum Faleke of the All Progressives Congress scored 240,867 whereas Idris Wada who was the incumbent governor working for a second time period on the platform of the Individuals’s Democratic Celebration, PDP garnered 199,514 votes.
Mr. Kucha stated the margin of votes between Messrs Audu and Wada is 41,353. And that the election was inconclusive as a result of the entire variety of registered voters in 91 polling items, in 18 native authorities areas, the place election was cancelled is 49,953. That determine is greater than the 41,353 votes with which Mr. Audu is forward of Mr. Wada.
APC transferred Audu/Faleke votes to Yahaya Bello
After the dying of Audu and the declaration of the election inclusive, APC nominated Yahaya Bello who was the primary runner up within the APC major to inherit the votes obtained by Audu/Faleke within the basic elections asking Faleke to proceed in his deputy governor place. However faleke rejected the transfer by the APC arguing that collation of outcomes of the election had been concluded and was awaiting official declaration of winner earlier than the sudden dying of Audu and that as the one surviving candidate on the joint ticket he ought to be declared governor elect. Faleke wrote INEC declaring himself “governor elect”. However APC ignored his argument and went into supplementary election with Yahaya Bello as its governorship candidate.
In response to the supplementary election outcomes declared by Mr. Kucha, Vice Chancellor, College of Agriculture, Makurdi, the APC garnered 6,885 votes, bringing the entire votes it obtained to 247,752, having polled 240,857 within the November 21 election.
The second runner up, the Individuals’s Democratic Celebration and its candidate, Idris Wada, who was the incumbent governor, scored 5,363 within the supplementary election. Thus, PDP polled a complete of 204, 877 votes, having had 199,514 on the November 21 election.
Faleke challenged resolution of APC in courtroom
Faleke went to election petition tribunal difficult the legality of the choice of the APC to make him a deputy to Yahaya Bello who was not on the poll on 21 November when main votes within the election have been solid.
He instructed his get together that he wouldn’t be accessible for inauguration as deputy to Governor Yahaya Bello. “I cannot disappoint Prince Abubakar Audu. I, James Abiodun Faleke, is not going to be there for the swearing-in if we don’t end the case earlier than the Jan. 27, 2016″. “No one consulted me earlier than making me a deputy to Bello. Bello too didn’t seek the advice of me. I’ve made my place recognized to the get together management on this. I’m not able to betray and disappoint Prince Abubakar Audu.” In maintaining to this vow, Faleke didn’t current himself for inauguration as deputy to Yahaya Bello.