An initiative of the Babayemi Vanguard
Kogi has never lacked names. It has lacked a record you can check. This network exists to put one man’s work in front of the whole state — twenty-one local governments, three senatorial districts, every ward — and let people judge it for themselves.
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Local governments
The whole of Kogi State — no district left out.
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Votes in 2015
What the ticket he ran on polled across Kogi.
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Terms in the House
Returned by Ikeja at every election since 2011.
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Korope buses
Vehicles handed to jobless young people, not cash.
Ekinrin-Adde, Ijumu
Kogi West · Okun land
James Abiodun Faleke was born in Ekinrin-Adde, Ijumu Local Government Area, in the old Kabba province — Okun land, Kogi West. That is home, and it has been home for sixty-six years.
His working life took him to Lagos, where he spent seventeen years in procurement and commercial management before public service, then rose through local government to the House of Representatives. But the state never left him — and in 2015, when Kogi called, he came.
Kogi West
Ijumu — his ward, his people, his first constituency.
Okun heritage
A community that has waited a long time for its turn.
Not a manifesto — a track record, already delivered somewhere else, and what it would mean if the same hands were applied here.
Chairman of the House Committee on Finance since 2015 — fiscal policy, revenue and budget oversight at national scale. Kogi’s IGR problem is a competence problem, and this is the competence.
A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply with seventeen years in procurement. The discipline of making sure public money buys what it is supposed to buy is his actual profession.
Two full terms as a council chairman, then elected to lead all fifty-seven Lagos chairmen. Kogi’s 21 LGAs do not need theory about the grassroots — they need someone who has done the job.
Over a thousand Korope buses placed with unemployed young people in his constituency. Not a handout that ends on Friday — an asset that earns on Monday.
Extensive road rehabilitation across Ikeja Federal Constituency. In Kogi, rural access is the difference between a farmer with a harvest and a farmer with a loss.
Food support reaching roughly 10,000 households in one exercise when the cost of living bit hardest — and a sponsored bill to insure the life of every serving corps member.
Prince Abubakar Audu picked him as running mate, and Faleke went to work — moving chairmen, ward officers and structures across all three districts.
The ticket won. Then Audu died while results were still being collated, the votes were transferred to another candidate, and the courts did not return them.
He did not defect. He did not incite anybody. He did not trade the moment for a settlement. He went back to his constituency and his committee and kept working — and that is the part Kogi has not forgotten.
Governorship poll · Kogi State
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Margin of victory
Declared results, Kogi State governorship election, November 2015.
These are the priorities this network takes into every ward meeting — the yardstick we will hold any leadership to, and the reason we believe this record matters.
Take this to your wardInternally generated revenue that grows, budgets that are published and procurement that returns value. This is the single competence gap behind almost every other failure in the state.
Kogi feeds people. Rural access roads decide whether a harvest becomes income or rots at the roadside — and they cost a fraction of what gets spent on show projects.
Assets and skills, not stipends. Transport schemes, artisan tooling, agro-processing — things a young person still owns after the cameras leave.
Twenty-one councils with real money, real responsibility and real scrutiny. Somebody who has chaired a council knows exactly where that system leaks.
East, West and Central — appointments, projects and attention spread on merit and need, beyond tribe and faith. A state stops arguing when it stops being shortchanged.
No declaration has been made. No poster has gone up. And still, in ward after ward across this state, the same name keeps coming up on its own.
We are not here to speak for anybody. We are here to make sure that when Kogi weighs its options, it does so with the full record in front of it — and that the people who believe in that record are already organised, ward by ward, when the moment comes.
Chief Babayemi Olorunfemi
Founder & Convener
The JAF Progressive Network is an initiative of the Babayemi Vanguard — the grassroots mobilisation platform founded and convened by Chief Babayemi Olorunfemi, philanthropist, community leader, Atunwase of Ipaja Kingdom in Lagos, and a stakeholder in Kogi State politics.
The Vanguard has spent years doing one thing properly: keeping a line open in both directions between leaders and the communities they serve — mobilising people on one side, carrying honest feedback back on the other.
“We are not building a fan club. We are building a structure — ward by ward — for people who have looked at the man’s record and decided it is the standard they want.”
Babayemi Vanguard
Home district — Ijumu and the whole of Okun land, plus every ward of the West.
Coordinators wantedCoordinators and members across every ward and LGA of the Central district.
Coordinators wantedCoordinators and members across every ward and LGA of the Eastern district.
Coordinators wantedEverything we discuss here stays here.
This is a safe space, and we protect it. Respect one another and the integrity of the network.
We move fast.
We respond quickly.
We do not drag our feet.
When something needs to be done, we do it with urgency and seriousness — exactly how the man we organise around has worked for twenty years.
From every ward to every senatorial district — help build the Kogi we all deserve.
An initiative of the Babayemi Vanguard
