Cabinet: Make Faleke your Chief of Staff, SGF, group urges Tinubu

The Director General, Committee of Youth on Mobilization and Sensitizuation (CYMS) Chief Obinna Nwaka, has appealed to Nigeria’s president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to consider Kogi born politician, Hon. James Faleke for the position of the Chief of Staff or Secretary to the Government of the Federation in his Cabinet.

Nwaka made the statement yesterday at the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) Secretariat Headquarters Abuja, while addressing party stakeholders and members of his organisation shortly after the inauguration of Members of the Boards under the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCTA) where his colleague, the CYMS’s Director of Finance, Hajia Aisha Ibrahim Baiyee was also inaugurated as a Board Member, Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB).

He described Faleke, the lawmaker representing Ikeja Federal Constituency as an accessible and detriblazed leader who can work under pressure and also understands both the economic and political situations in the country.

Nwaka added that Faleke’s loyalty to Asiwaju had cost him the opportunity to be the Governor of Kogi State when late Prince Audu Abubakar the governor elect whom he ran a joint ticket with died. According to him, Faleke would have been Governor of Kogi State seven years ago when the unfortunate incident happened.

“Though we are glad, that after the 2023 political armegeddon, APC won in the center, we are hoping that Asiwaju will encourage him to serve as his Chief of Staff to enable him continue his good work.

“Faleke i know, is an unbiased understanding christian politician and a quintessential leader with ability to withstand pressure and always ready to salvage any predicaments liable to affect the victory of Asiwaju. Despite our relationship, i worked with him closely during the most sensitive moment of election before the official declaration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed as the President Elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by the INEC. His humility, accessibility and prompt intervention made the work easier for us”.

The CYMS’s Director General, expressed optimism that the appointment of Hon Faleke will provide better opportunity and improved political reward system for APC loyalists following the continuation of the APC Presidency.

Nwaka, who also served as a member of APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), trained their members deployed nationwide and monitored the entire process of 2023 general election as contained in the electoral circle of the INEC.

CYMS is an evaluation and monitoring body with structures in the states of the Federation, engaged by the Presidency in 2018, with the mandate to sensitize and promote the policies and programmes of the Federal government.