LP Chief, AA Candidate to Sue INEC over Alleged Alteration of Ogun PDP Register.
They said that this is over the alleged unlawful alteration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) membership register submitted to the commission as part of conditions for the 2027 general elections.
Both Arabambi and Awolola have formally petitioned INEC to preserve the original register and investigate information alleging that an affidavit had been sworn to explain the omission of the name of PDP’s governorship candidate, Oladipupo Adebutu, from the document.
The LP chieftain and the AA guber candidate warned that they would challenge any purported retrospective alteration of the register or administrative action, based on an allegedly unlawful substitution of the original document.
While they acknowledged that they were not in possession of the alleged affidavit, the LP chieftain and AA guber candidate called on the electoral umpire to establish whether the affidavit existed and whether it had been submitted to the commission. Speaking with journalists yesterday in Abuja, the petitioners raised concern that the reported affidavit might be used to seek recognition of Adebutu as the PDP’s governorship candidate for the 2027 election in Ogun State. According to them, they had received information suggesting that INEC might publish Adebutu’s name on Thursday, October 29. They recalled that the PDP conducted its Ogun State governorship primary in Abeokuta on May 24, 2026, adding that the membership register submitted to INEC ahead of the exercise did not contain Adebutu’s name.
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