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APC Has No Rule for Endorsement, Party Guidelines Recognise Only Consensus or Direct Primaries — Ogun East Stakeholders

Prominent leaders and stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun East Senatorial District have declared that the April 20 endorsement of Governor Dapo Abiodun as the party’s consensus senatorial candidate for the 2027 elections is legally void and politically illegitimate, arguing that the APC’s amended electoral guidelines make no provision for endorsements and recognise only consensus or direct primaries as valid pathways to candidacy.

The stakeholders, operating under the BATOGD Movement, a support vehicle for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Senator Otunba Gbenga Daniel, spoke at a press briefing held at Daniel’s Sagamu GRA residence, where they formally rejected the outcome of the meeting held at Adeola Odutola Hall in Ijebu Ode.

Retired General Olumuyiwa Okunowo, who spoke on behalf of the group, said the gathering was not a legitimate APC caucus meeting but a closed-door affair orchestrated exclusively by the Governor’s loyalists. He said qualified members who arrived with valid invitations were turned away at the entrance and told the event was “a DA show” open only to those loyal to the governor.

“They should have been bold enough to make the notifications clear about their true intention, rather than using the name of our great party to drag our leaders into ratifying a premeditated show,” Okunowo said.

Former Ijebu North East Local Government Chairman, Otunba Tayo Onayemi, questioned the legal basis of the entire exercise. “Consensus, as recognised by law, must be based on voluntary agreement by all aspirants. Has the governor formally declared? Has he obtained nomination forms? Without these steps, there is no consensus,” he said.

Former Commissioner Akogun Kola Onadipe was equally direct, stating that the party’s guidelines require all aspirants vying for a position to individually sign a consensus form, formally agreeing to the consensus arrangement before it can be considered binding on any party. He said the absence of that process rendered the Ijebu Ode event worthless in the eyes of party law. “Consensus requires that all aspirants willingly agree and endorse the candidate in writing. If one person disagrees, the party must conduct direct primaries. What happened on Monday falls short of these requirements,” he said.

Beyond the endorsement dispute, the group also raised alarm over what it described as a security siege on Senator Daniel’s Ijebu Ode residence the following day. Okunowo said armoured vehicles and hundreds of police officers were deployed around the property without any justification, alleging that the Ijebu Ode Local Government Chairman misled security forces with false information to engineer the clampdown. The group said it had written a petition to the Inspector General of Police and acknowledged his prompt intervention in restoring order.

The BATOGD Movement said its community assessment and empowerment tour of the Ogun East Senatorial District, which has covered seven of the nine local government areas since September 2025 without incident, would continue as scheduled, with Ijebu Ode next on the calendar.

It would be recalled that the April 20 meeting at Adeola Odutola Hall was itself mired in controversy from the outset. Former Ogun State Governor and current Senator representing Ogun East, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, was reportedly denied entry to the venue. In a video that has since gone viral, Daniel spoke from his campaign bus, branded with the OGD/PBAT Movement insignia, confirming that he had been barred from the hall. The footage added a dramatic dimension to what his supporters had already described as a choreographed exclusion, and it has continued to circulate widely on social media ahead of the 2027 contest.

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Dapo Abiodun na funny governor. Failed woefully as a governor and want to head to the senate. Hilarious
Even though Gbenga Daniel is no saint, but he was way better in governance than this darudapo. He isn't even liked in his base. The outcome of who gets the Ogun east senatorial ticket is one of the battles to look forward to in the coming days.
FTC

This Dapo nah big clown aje 🤡

As e be so, this consensus and Direct Primaries might bring more problems than the indirect method.
Nigerians can easily turn good to bad.

If Gbenga Daniel does not agree to the consensus, a direct primary election will have to be held

asfrank:
As e be so, this consensus and Direct Primaries might bring more problems than the indirect method.
Nigerians can easily turn good to bad.

It will only confuse people like you that choose to be confuse

There's nothing problematic about the consensus or Direct Primaries, nah you just dey Wail over nothing

No policy/law can work nomatter how good as long as Nigerian politicians are all alive.

SMerchant:
No policy/law can work nomatter how good as long as Nigerian politicians are all alive.

The policy and law is working bro, even Dapo Abiodun knows he's just joking

Stop given yourself headache over nothing

Parachoko:
If Gbenga Daniel does not agree to the consensus, a direct primary election will have to be held

That’s the law!

Xxxxxxxxx.

Parachoko:
The policy and law is working bro, even Dapo Abiodun knows he's just joking

Stop given yourself headache over nothing

Me headache abeg ooo
Nigeria 🇳🇬
Me headache

Corrupt party ...what do you expect

SMerchant:
Me headache abeg ooo
Nigeria 🇳🇬
Me headache

Your Comment sold you out

It'd be a huge battle for Dapo to snatch the ticket from OGD.
I think the party should find a neutral person to represent the zone in the Senate. No be only una dey the place now.

Same thing in the Central, imagine the Philadephia man wants to return to the Senate.

As per say no other person dey the town again.

No be DA wey dey name someone as consensus candidate facing scrutiny about his own

Funnily,the Ogun central are questioning the claim of Amosun being the consensus candidate to represent Ogun central and also Yayi as consensus for Gov

Parachoko:
If Gbenga Daniel does not agree to the consensus, a direct primary election will have to be held

I still don't understand. Is it that there are no better or credible people from Ogun East that it has to be OGD or DA to represent the senatorial district?

helinues:
I still don't understand. Is it that there are not better or credible people from Ogun East that it has to be OGD or DA to represent the senatorial district?

It's left to the people of Ogun East, they can decide to vote another party if they don't want OGD or DA

Parachoko:
It's left to the people of Ogun East, they can decide to vote another party if they don't want OGD or DA

Is it not OGD that's currently representing the senatorial district? Ogun East politics have always been in 2 factions while the Ijebu play their own politics entirely from the Remo

Yemmysworld91:
Dapo Abiodun na funny governor. Failed woefully as a governor and want to head to the senate. Hilarious
Even though Gbenga Daniel is no saint, but he was way better in governance than this darudapo. He isn't even liked in his base. The outcome of who gets the Ogun east senatorial ticket is one of the battles to look forward to in the coming days.
FTC

Gbenga Daniel cannot lace Dapo shoe in governance. Dapo outperform him.

LegendHero:
Gbenga Daniel cannot lace Dapo shoe in governance. Dapo outperform him.

Haaaa.. See opinion oooo
I'm from Ogun state and I've lived all my life within Lagos/Ogun axis and I witnessed both administration. Except few occasions I travel to other states for work assignments. Dapo is the worst governor we've had in the history of ogun state.

Yemmysworld91:
Haaaa.. See opinion oooo
I'm from Ogun state and I've lived all my life within Lagos/Ogun axis and I witnessed both administration. Except few occasions I travel to other states for work assignments. Dapo is the worst governor we've had in the history of ogun state.

On what basis is Dapo the worst governor?

Road? Salaries? Housing? Attraction of industries? IGR? What exactly?

Tell us the most impactful project of OGD?

Yemmysworld91:
Dapo Abiodun na funny governor. Failed woefully as a governor and want to head to the senate. Hilarious
Even though Gbenga Daniel is no saint, but he was way better in governance than this darudapo. He isn't even liked in his base. The outcome of who gets the Ogun east senatorial ticket is one of the battles to look forward to in the coming days.
FTC

Is this not the same person they call "Eleyi of Eyi land"?

Yemmysworld91:
Haaaa.. See opinion oooo
I'm from Ogun state and I've lived all my life within Lagos/Ogun axis and I witnessed both administration. Except few occasions I travel to other states for work assignments. Dapo is the worst governor we've had in the history of ogun state.

You've spoken very well and reasonably too!

LegendHero:
On what basis is Dapo the worst governor?

Road? Salaries? Housing? Attraction of industries? IGR? What exactly?

Tell us the most impactful project of OGD?

In all fairness, the civil servants in ogun state enjoyed him more than Amosun. Daniel had no issues with the civil servants too.
But in terms of roads and infrastructural development Dapo has been poor. Even the few roads he managed to construct were poorly done.
Moved airport that work was already ongoing from Ewekoro to his hometown.
I know of newly constructed roads by Daniel. I can't and don't have patience to type here. Ogun had ogroma under Daniel.
Abeg, Dapo na bad governor abeg. I be core ogun boy oo

Ogun and Edo state dey compete in terms of bad roads ooo

I'm a regular traveler and I know what I'm saying. As I type I no even dey house. I'm still in the south south.

Yemmysworld91:
In all fairness, the civil servants in ogun state enjoyed him more than Amosun. Daniel had no issues with the civil servants too.
But in terms of roads and infrastructural development Dapo has been poor. Even the few roads he managed to construct were poorly done.
Moved airport that work was already ongoing from Ewekoro to his hometown.
I know of newly constructed roads by Daniel. I can't and don't have patience to type here. Ogun had ogroma under Daniel.
Abeg, Dapo na bad governor abeg. I be core ogun boy oo

Ogun and Edo state dey compete in terms of bad roads ooo

I'm a regular traveler and I know what I'm saying. As I type I no even dey house. I'm still in the south south.

Baba, Dapo beat OGD even in roads and infrastructure. I sabi Ogun state well too coz my mom is from Ogun state. Stayed in Ijebu for some time and did my NYSC in Abeokuta at Oke Ilewo.

I don’t know why you guys just usually banter Dapo with roads when that guy indeed constructed roads that are actually verifiable.

Some of the roads that people abuse him with are FG roads and majorly in Ogun West which some of them is being done now by both FG and Dapo.

Forget the usual Dapo banter, that guy solid. I might not blame OGD too much because governors these days have more money per capital compared to back then.

LegendHero:
Gbenga Daniel cannot lace Dapo shoe in governance. Dapo outperform him.

Yes especially in sleeping on his duty as governor😛😛😛

LegendHero:
Baba, Dapo beat OGD even in roads and infrastructure. I sabi Ogun state well too coz my mom is from Ogun state. Stayed in Ijebu for some time and did my NYSC in Abeokuta at Oke Ilewo.

I don’t know why you guys just usually banter Dapo with roads when that guy indeed constructed roads that are actually verifiable.

Some of the roads that people abuse him with are FG roads and majorly in Ogun West which some of them is being done now by both FG and Dapo.

Forget the usual Dapo banter, that guy solid. I might not blame OGD too much because governors these days have more money per capital compared to back then.

Baba you no sabi Ogun state. Even inside his ijebu there are bad roads. Minor roads in ogun west is a mess. No touch at all.

Some roads Amosun started we're abandoned by him. Some already dualized road under construction were turned to one by dapo and the other side abandoned. I know a road like that in abeokuta that a gutter is in the middle of the express way. I'm core ogun boy baba. Dapo is a mess of a governor. Even if he gets the senatorial ticket he may lose if the opposition present someone better. He's useless. I will stand by that anyday anytime.