Only Court Will Determine Real APC Guber Candidate For Ogun—Hunye

The controversy over conduct of the governorship primary of Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) may be far from being over as a governorship aspirant, Hon. Abayomi Hunye yesterday declared that only the Federal High Court would determine who the candidate of the party is between him and Senator Olamilekan Solomon Adeola for the forthcoming year 2027 governorship race in the state.

Hunye was addressing party loyalists at the unveiling programme of a former governorship aspirant, Otunba Abayomi Odunowo as his running mate for the 2027 guber election in the state.

The APC guber aspirant, who is currently challenging the party’s concensus governorship primary that produced Adeola in Suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/1127/2027 at a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), emphatically declared that he remained in the 2027 governorship race, thereby dismissing insinuations that he had stepped down for the senator.

Addressing party loyalists, Hunye explained that he had initially chosen to remain silent but decided to clarify his position because of what he described as misleading reports about his withdrawal from the race.

LEADERSHIP Sunday recalled that Hunye had approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, wherein, he is seeking a court’s declaration that the results of the APC guber primary election announced in Ogun are invalid; a perpetual injunction restraining APC from forwarding Adeola’s name to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the governorship candidate for the state among others.

But speaking at the Thursday’s APC meeting which had in attendance, representatives of the party from across the 20 Local Government Areas, Hunye urged his supporters not to be distracted by rumours concerning his political ambition, insisting that he remained confident that the judiciary would deliver justice on the matter in his favour.

He further explained that his decision to continue with campaign preparations was informed by provisions of the amended electoral framework, which, according to him, required candidates challenging electoral processes in court to continue participating in subsequent stages of the process.