Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, is in the eye of a gathering storm, regarding his eligibility to seek re-election in 2023.
Although he has declared his intention to run for a second term alongside his Deputy, Noimot Oyedele, the governor has to deal with an avalanche of questions about his eligibility.
A petition, submitted by Ayodele Oludiran (an APC member from Abeokuta South Local Council, Ogun State), to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, called on the governor to address the allegation that he committed criminal offences in the United States in the 80s and other possible constitutional infractions.
The petition, is against the governor’s re-election bid especially pointing attention to alleged irregularities in the educational qualifications he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Oludiran noted that there were discrepancies in Forms CF001 the governor filled in 2015 and 2019 with INEC, especially discrepancies in the educational qualifications he submitted to the electoral body.
According to him, while contesting for governor in 2019, Abiodun claimed he attended International Primary School Ayetoro in 1971. But four years earlier, while he was running for Senate, he submitted the name of another primary school, Comprehensive High School Ayetoro.
“All efforts to locate both schools, which would have been in the present Ekiti State or Ogun State – of the Old Western Region of Nigeria – pro
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