The crisis within the Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress deepened on Friday as a former governorship aspirant, Abayomi Hunye, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja over the electoral documents submitted under oath by Senator Solomon Adeola, popularly known as Yayi.
Hunye is asking the court to review Adeola’s previous Independent National Electoral Commission nomination documents to determine the state of origin declared by the senator in past elections.
The legal action was disclosed in a statement issued in Lagos by Hunye’s media adviser, Femi Oyewole, following a press briefing by the former aspirant’s lead counsel, Victor Olamide.
Olamide said the suit was not aimed at challenging Adeola’s status as a Yewa indigene but was focused on what he described as statutory integrity and alleged inconsistencies in sworn public documents.
“We are not challenging the indigeneity of Senator Olamilekan Adeola as a Yewa son. What we are bringing before the court is a matter of statutory integrity and constitutional compliance.
“He has held public elective offices over two decades. What state of origin did he declare under oath in his previous INEC nomination forms when he contested in Lagos State? Was it Ekiti State? Was it Lagos State? Any deliberate inconsistency in documents submitted under oath carries severe legal implications,” Victor said.
He said certified true copies of the relevant documents obtained from INEC would be tendered as exhibits before the court, although copies were not distributed at the briefing.
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The suit is the latest development in the dispute between Hunye and Adeola over the APC governorship ticket for the 2027 election in Ogun State. The APC has reaffirmed Adeola as its recognised candidate, while Hunye has continued to challenge the process through legal channels.
Speaking on his legal standing, Hunye said he was not asking the court to declare him the APC candidate, but to examine whether the party’s nomination process complied with the law.
“I am not asking the media or the public to declare me the candidate. I am asking the judiciary to look at the process, examine the facts under the Electoral Act, and allow the law to take its proper course,” Hunye stated.
He also questioned the APC’s claim that he was suspended from the party on April 7, 2026, following a petition allegedly originating from his ward in Tube, Ipokia Local Government Area.
Hunye argued that the party’s subsequent actions were inconsistent with the suspension claim, noting that it accepted N50m from him for the governorship expression of interest and nomination forms on April 28, and later screened and cleared him for the primary.
“If I was genuinely suspended on April 7, why did the party accept my N50m payment on April 28? Why was my application processed, and why was I cleared by the screening committee to contest the primary?” he asked.
Hunye took part in the APC governorship primary on May 21, where Adeola was declared winner with 304,055 votes out of 305,287 accredited voters, while Hunye was recorded as scoring zero votes.
The former aspirant said he had exhausted the party’s internal dispute-resolution process after submitting petitions to the APC Governorship Primary Appeal Committee without receiving a response.
He also dismissed allegations that his legal action was being financed by the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Ladi Adebutu, insisting that the case was an independent effort to seek judicial determination of issues surrounding the APC nomination process.
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