According to the Independent National Electoral Commission , 13 persons were earlier in the contest for the Ogun State governorship seat currently being occupied by Abiodun.
Political observers in the Gateway State ‘lost their permutations’ when an Abeokuta Federal High Court nullified all the primary elections conducted by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party . The judgement affected Ladi Adebutu, who many saw as a major threat to Abiodun. But, when the PDP and its supporters were still basking in the euphoria of their renewed ‘vigour’, the enemy came, like in the bible, and “planted weeds among their wheat.”
In Ogun, our correspondent reports that some voters have started considering the ADC as the next option in case the PDP could not settle its court cases in record time.The Labour Party in Ogun State had dragged Otegbeye to court on the allegations that the ADC did not conduct a valid primary. The Labour Party said the ADC primary, if any, did not conform to the electoral act as it was not monitored by the INEC.