NYSC certificate: IPAC splits over Ogun APC gov candidate

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.]]>