Ogun 2027: Stakeholders petition ADC screening committee, demand disqualification of Jimi Lawal

Concerned members of the African Democratic Congress from the Ogun East Senatorial District person petitioned the party’s National Secretariat, demanding the disqualification of a governorship aspirant, Otunba Jimi Lawal, implicit corruption allegations.

The members successful the petition addressed the Chairman, Governorship Screening Committee, ADC, National Secretariat, Abuja, on Sunday, urged the enactment enactment not to wide Lawal for the forthcoming governorship primaries. 

The petitioners, Olabisi Omolaso, Haruna Owolabi, Keshiro Daniel, Ezekiel Abidemi, Onamuyiwa Olumuyiwa, and Ibrahim Aliyat argued that presenting an aspirant heavy burdened with ineligible battles and integrity issues would severely jeopardize the party’s electoral fortunes successful Ogun.

DAILY POST reports that the petition dated May 17, 2026 and received astatine the party’s nationalist office successful Abuja on May 18, highlighted an ongoing transgression prosecution instituted against Lawal by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), among others.

Part of the petition reads, “ADC cannot proceed to contiguous itself to Nigerians arsenic a credible alternate governmental level portion simultaneously entrusting its governorship summons to an aspirant presently facing transgression prosecution and burdened with unresolve...