Adebutu’s exclusion: Where does Ogun PDP go from here?

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The Ogun PDP is seeking legal intervention over INEC’s omission of its governorship candidate, Oladipupo Adebutu, from the 2027 candidates’ list. Read More:…

As the 2027 Ogun governorship race gathers momentum, the PDP seeks legal intervention over INEC’s omission of Oladipupo Adebutu and his running mate from the candidates’ list, while the APC blames the opposition’s internal crisis for its predicament, writes BANKOLE TAIWO

The road to the 2027 governorship election in Ogun State is already becoming a test of political nerves, party loyalty and confidence in the electoral process, with the PDP confronting a hurdle: the omission of its governorship candidate, Oladipupo Adebutu, and his running mate, Yemi Sowunmi-Kolapo, from the list of candidates published by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The opposition party had waited with bated breath and confidence that its petition against the Independent National Electoral Commission over its refusal to include its governorship candidate and his running mate on the list of eligible candidates for the 2027 election, as earlier published on its website in October, would succeed.

But, in a subsequent statement signed by the Chairman of INEC’s Information and Voter Education Committee, Mohammed Haruna, the electoral commission said it had upheld 66 petitions challenging the final lists of governorship and state Houses of Assembly candidates for the 2027 general elections and rejected 64 others.

Haruna said the commission reviewed the complaints, relevant records and applicable legal provisions before reaching its decisions.

INEC attributed the omissions to alleged non-compliance with provisions of the Electoral Act, 2026, requiring parties to submit their membership registers.

The commission said its position followed a September 24, 2026, Supreme Court judgment affirming the constitutionality of Section 77(5) to (7) of the Electoral Act, which makes the submission of membership registers mandatory.

However, the hope of the Ogun State chapter of the opposition party is becoming forlorn as its governorship candidate and his running mate are still missing from the list of…

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