The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Assembly candidate for Abeokuta South Constituency II, Hon. Adeoye Adewale Adeniran, has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of spreading misinformation and political propaganda over the eligibility of Senator Iyabo Obasanjo to contest the 2027 Ogun Central Senatorial election.
Adeniran, in a statement made available to Vanguard in Abeokuta, described reports claiming that the Supreme Court had disqualified Obasanjo from contesting the election as “misleading, legally speculative, and politically motivated.”
He urged members of the public to disregard the reports, arguing that the Supreme Court judgment being cited in support of the claim neither mentioned Obasanjo nor contained any order barring her from contesting the election.
His reaction followed the Supreme Court’s judgment of September 24, 2026, in a case involving the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) over provisions of the Electoral Act 2026, where the apex court upheld the validity of the disputed provisions and set aside an earlier judgment of the Court of Appeal which had voided them.
The provisions in contention included Sections 77(5), 77(6), 77(7) and 84(2), which principally relate to party membership registers and methods of candidate nomination.
Adeniran, however, maintained that the judgment did not name Senator Obasanjo or make any order disqualifying her from participating in the 2027 Ogun Central Senatorial election.
“The attempt to present that judgment as an automatic disqualification of Senator Prof. Iyabo Obasanjo from the 2027 Ogun Central Senatorial election is factually unsupported, legally speculative and clearly designed to create confusion where none exists,” he said.
He argued that the case before the Supreme Court arose from a dispute between INEC and a political party, stressing that Obasanjo was not a party to the proceedings.
“It is therefore mischievous and intellectually dishonest to transform a judgment in a dispute between INEC and a political party into a purported judicial pronouncement against a particular candidate who was neither a party to the suit nor the subject of the judgment,” Adeniran stated.
