The Chairman of the Ogun State chapter of the Inter Party Advisory Council, IPAC, Comrade Sanyaolu Adebayo, has disowned the state chapter of the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, saying it is an alien group in the face of law and has no record with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Adebayo also accused the acclaimed chairman of the group, Otunba Femi Sholuade of criminal impersonation, adding that he is not the Chairman of African Democratic Congress, ADC, as he claimed.
He explained that IPAC remains the only recognized group for registered political parties in the state and that any group outside IPAC is operating illegally and against the law.
Adebayi averred that upon his emergence as the Ogun State Chairman of IPAC, he made frantic efforts to ascertain leadership of different political parties from INEC and subsequently discovered that Sholuade is not the chairman of ADC in the state.
He expressed dismay that an illegal group with an impersonator as its chairman could come out openly to make allegation of any type in the public space.
Adebayo said, “I read the statement issued by CUPP in profound astonishment, especially the signatory, Otunba Femi Sholuade, who claimed to be the state chairman of the group. First and foremost, there is nothing like such group in the record of INEC, the electoral umpire recognizes only IPAC as coalition of registered political parties.
“Secondly, Otunba Sholuade, who claimed to be the chairman of the illegal group is a mere impersonator, he is not the chairman of any political party in the state. I have painstakingly conducted my findings from INEC and his was not the name sent to me as the chairman of ADC.
“While I am not disappointed by these dubious tendencies of those individuals claiming to be members of CUPP, my only concern is the for the chairman of the Peoples Redeption Party, PRP, Mr Ogunsanya Samson, who is among them. He is the only authentic chairman of a political party among them and I wonder how he found himself among those characters.”
