Breaking: Our candidate has not Stepped Down For Any Opponent –NNPP

The Ogun State chapter of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has reacted to rumours that its candidate in the March 11 gubernatorial elections, Ambassador Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo, has stepped down.

In a disclaimer signed by the NNPP state secretary Hon. Oluwatioyin Afuye a copy of which was made available to our correspondent, the party, described the rumour as outright falsehood.

It said it is the handiwork of people it described as mischievous elements seeking to cause confusion in the polity, and who should be disregarded.

Refuting the assertion of Ambassador Ajadi stepping down, the secretary stated:  “We want to state clearly here that nothing could be farther from the truth.

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“The rumour that he has withdrawn from the race and adopted one Hon Oladipupo Adebutu a.k.a.LADO of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is the handiwork of mischievous elements seeking to cause confusion in the ranks of our party, for their selfish interests.

It is untrue and fake, in fact, a figment of the peddlers’ imaginations, and should be treated as so”.

Making reference to a news story published by a national daily purporting that the NNPP was amongst ten political parties that had entered into an accord with the purpose of sacking the incumbent, Dapo Abiodun, the NNPP scribe said it was untrue.

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According to him, if there was any such alignment the NNPP was not party to it.

He said as much as there was need to oust the sitting government in the state, for its failure to turn around the fortunes of Ogun, that no alignment of ten parties to the best of his knowledge had been formed.

“IF there was any such thing, we would have duly informed and in fact carried our teeming members along. For now, it is a rumour and outright falsehood”, he said.