2023: INEC Robbed NNPP of Victory in Ogun, Guber Candidate Insists

Kemi Olaitan in Ibadan

The gubernatorial candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Ogun State, Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo, has insisted that he is not satisfied with the outcome of the 2023 gubernatorial election in the state.

This is just as he said many residents who were ready to vote for the party could not find the logo on the ballot paper as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) omitted it on the ballot papers during the election.

He noted that as a result of this, he is not satisfied with the outcome of the election conducted by INEC on March 18, 2023.

Ajadi made these disclosures at the weekend during his investiture as patron of the Correspondents’ Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Oyo State Council, held at the NUJ Press Centre in Iyaganku, Ibadan.

Ajadi, who spoke on the topic: ‘Contesting in Nigeria’s 2023 general election: Ogun State experience’, insisted that he had a terrible experience during the campaign, stating that he survived several attacks, intimidations and threats from sponsored thugs and hoodlums.

He then maintained that he and his political party are not satisfied with the outcome of the elections because many eligible voters who wished to vote for the political party were disenfranchised.

According to him, “I am not comfortable with the outcome of the election due to how INEC robbed our party because they know that Nigerians are clamouring for a new Nigeria.

“As a result of that they do not want any political party to come up aside from the two giant political parties in the country- APC and PDP. And as a result of that, Nigerians found it difficult to recognise their logo while the INEC omitted our party’s name on the ballot papers during the election.

“Because other political parties’ names were seen on the ballot papers, they saw the name aside from the logo on the ballot papers. The constitution of Nigeria does not only recognise logos without names on the ballot papers.”

The Chairman of the Chapel, Raji Adebayo, in his remarks, appealed to the federal government to review the implementation of the subsidy removal policy and hasten the palliatives to cushion its effects, urging him to channel the proceeds from the removal to infrastructural developments.

“But I will appeal to the federal government under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to review the implementation of the policy and hasten the palliatives to cushion the effects of the subsidy removal. We implore him to channel the proceeds from subsidy to infrastructural developments. We need good roads, medical facilities, education, and particularly security,” he said.