Some members of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, Ogun State
chapter, on Sunday disagreed with other members of the council who
gave the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Dapo
Abiodun, an ultimatum to either produce his National Youth Service
Corps discharge certificate or face a legal battle.
The dissident parties, which included the Green Party of
Nigeria, Unity Party of Nigeria, Democratic Peoples Party, Nigeria
Interest Party, Labour Party and National Interest Party, stated
this in a statement they jointly signed in Abeokuta.
They urged the general public to disregard the ultimatum given
by the IPAC in the state, saying they were not a party to it.
The state Chairman of IPAC, Arabambi Abayomi, had said there
were discrepancies in the qualifications Abiodun submitted to
contest the 2019 governorship election when compared to the ones he
submitted to contest a senatorial seat in 2015.
He, therefore, issued a 42-hour ultimatum to Abiodun on behalf
of IPAC to clear the air on the controversy or risk a
disqualification suit from the council.
But the dissident parties in IPAC said they had unanimously
dissociated themselves from the said ultimatum.
They claimed that they were never part of the meeting where the
idea of ultimatum was conceived.
The statement partly read, “We, the undersigned political
parties in Ogun State, wish to make it known to the general public
that we are not part of the ultimatum given by one Abayomi
Oluwafemi Arabambi on behalf of the Ogun State Inter-Party Advisory
Council (IPAC).
“There was nowhere a meeting of the majority of IPAC members was
called, let alone taken such materially motivated position.’’
The statement further explained the role played by the IPAC
chairman, saying it was on record that he was not an authentic
chairman of Labour Party which he claimed to be.
The parties maintained that Arabambi could only be regarded as a
factional leader with a series of cases with the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission.
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