You're Not Our Guber Candidate, Ogun CPC Tells Okunniyi

ABEOKUTA, April 25, (THEWILL) - Ogun State chapter of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Sunday told Comrade Wale Okunniyi that the party does not recognised him as its governorship candidate in the state, saying that he should stop parading himself as the governorship candidate of the party for Tuesday's poll.

According to a statement signed by its state Publicity Secretary, Chief Bola Adeogun and made available to THEWILL in Abeokuta, the CPC said Okunniyi had at no time, been its governorship candidate.

The party at the end of its Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Thursday, said it had taken a stand on the matter, saying that, "we hereby state, in clear terms, that Okunniyi had not been the governorship candidate of our party in Ogun State.

"We also warn that Mr. Wale Okunniyi should stop parading himself as the governorship candidate of our party in the state," the CPC said.

THEWILL tried to get a reaction from Okunniyi but calls to his cell phone did not go through.