IPAC split over NYSC certificate of Ogun APC guber candidate

There is currently a disagreement among members of the Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) Ogun State chapter over the ultimatum given to the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Dapo Abiodun to produce his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) discharge certificate or face legal action.

On Sunday in Abeokuta, members of the council, including the Green Party of Nigeria, Unity Party of Nigeria, Democratic Peoples Party, Nigeria Interest Party, Labour Party and National Interest Party, jointly signed a joint statement urging the general public to disregard any ultimatum earlier given by IPAC while distancing themselves from the action.

Earlier, the state Chairman of IPAC, Arabambi Abayomi had noticed discrepancies in the qualifications Abiodun submitted to contest the 2019 governorship election when compared to the ones he submitted to contest a senatorial seat in 2015.

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He then gave Abiodun a 42-hour ultimatum on behalf of IPAC to explain the growing controversy before a disqualification suit is filed against him by the council.

But the dissident parties in IPAC said they had unanimously dissociated themselves from the said ultimatum.

The statement partly read, “We, the undersigned political parties in Ogun State, wish to make it known to the general public that we are not part of the ultimatum given by one Abayomi Oluwafemi Arabambi on behalf of the Ogun State Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC).

“There was nowhere a meeting of the majority of IPAC members was called, let alone taken such materially motivated position.”

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