We won’t relax on tribunal, ready for 2027 election –NNPP candidate

Promises NUJ continuous support

By Stephen Gbadamosi

Candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the Ogun State governorship election, Ambassador Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo, who was honoured as a patron of the Correspondents’ chapel of the Oyo State Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Sunday, has said the NNPP will continue with its petition over the poll.

Oguntoyinbo, shortly after delivering a lecture entitled; “Contesting in Nigeria’s 2023 General Elections: Ogun State Experience,” spoke with journalist thereafter and said the party would see the case filed before the tribunal to the end, despite that a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) hired to prosecute the case collected mobilisation fees and refused to represent.

He said the party was mobilising to have more members to have a better showing in the next elections in 2027.

“We are sure that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) did not do the right thing in the 2023 election in Ogun State. We are contending that and we don’t think of withdrawing.

“We are solidifying our membership base in the NNPP. We are going to be the party to beat in 2007; and we are trying to make that happen. My belief in this country is strong. I have said times without number that the kind of change the late Obafemi Awolowo made in politics in made me love to join politics,” he said.

Earlier in his lecture, Oguntoyinbo highlighted the intrigues that characterised the Nigerian electoral process, citing how so-called money bags hijacked the process and disenfranchised people who wished to serve.

He also talked about institutionalized means of subverting the wish of the people as he witnessed in the Ogun State example.

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Leaders of the pen profession who were there were the state chairman, Chief Demola Babalola; Correspondents’ chairman (host), Muftau Raji Adebayo; Adebayo Akamo, Kemi Olaitan, among others.

Other dignitaries at the lecture included a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a former Chief Press Secretary to the late Governor Lam Adesina, Alhaji Kehinde Olaosebikan; another former Oyo CPS and former NUJ chairman, Mr. Victor Oluwadamilare; NNPP chieftans from Ogun State and many journalists.

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