Ogun NNPP petitions police over ex-chairman, Oginni’s acts of impersonation

…Debunks purported suspension of national secretary

By Stephen Gbadamosi

The Ogun State chapter of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has brought security agencies into the crisis rocking the party, petitioning the state commissioner of police over what it called “the acts of impersonation and false claim of membership of the party” by its former chairman, Olaposi Sunday Oginni, who the party reiterated has been expelled by the party’s national leadership.

This is as the party also debunked the purported suspension of its national secretary, Oladipupo Olayokun, by the dissolved former chairman of ward 5, Abeokuta South, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Mr. Segun Adesegun.

According to a recent petition signed by the state Caretaker Committee chairman, Prince Ibrahim Adekunle, addressed to the Commissioner of Police, Ogun State Command, and made available to journalists, Oginni was threatening the peace in the party and state.

Entitled; “Petition Against Comrade Olaposi Sunday Oginni,” the petition said NNPP wished to inform the office of Ogun commissioner of police of the activities of Oginni which it said were capable of threatening the peace and tranquility of Ogun State.

In the petition, which was also copied to the Director, State Security Service (SSS), Ogun State; Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Ogun State and the Registrar, High Court, Ogun State, the party stated that on 27th April, 2023, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, “having found Comrade Olaposi Sunday Oginni culpable in sundry accusations, expelled him and also dissolved the State Executive Committee (SEC) and those of all the local governments and wards across the state.”

The party said: “Consequently, Prince Ibrahim Adekunle was appointed as the chairman, Caretaker Committee on Thursday, 27th April 2023, to run the affairs of the party and set up caretakers for all the local governments and wards in the state.

“It is, therefore, a criminal offence for Oginni Olaposi Sunday to be parading himself, impersonating, by pronouncing at different media houses that he is still the chairman of NNPP in Ogun State and the chairman of all chairmen in Nigeria of the party after his expulsion by the NWC as well as his failure at the court to overturn the NWC decision.

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“All members of the party within and in the Diaspora are aware of Oginni’s political antics to destabilise the administration of the caretaker chairman of the NNPP, Ogun State chapter with a serious threat to the peace of Ogun State.

“Therefore, the Ogun State Chapter of the NNPP, led by my humble self, Prince Ibrahim Adekunle, is calling on the public, especially the security agencies and media houses, to be wary of the former chairman, Mr Oginni’s activities which are simply criminal as are nothing but impersonation,” the party said.

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