The Chairman of Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) in Ogun State, Comrade Sanyaolu Adebayo has disowned the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) in the state, 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 the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as he claimed.
He explained that IPAC remains the only recognized group of registered political parties in the state and that any group outside IPAC is operating illegally and against the law.
According to him, upon his emergence as the State Chairman of IPAC, he made frantic efforts to ascertain the 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 the chairman could come out openly to make allegations 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 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 the 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 he 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 Chairman of the Peoples Redemption 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.”