Former All Progressives Congress governorship aspirant in Ogun State, Abayomi Hunye, has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja over the state of origin allegedly declared by Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, popularly known as Yayi, in previous electoral documents.
The legal action comes amid the continuing dispute over the APC’s 2027 governorship ticket in Ogun State.
Hunye is asking the court to examine Adeola’s nomination forms and other statutory declarations submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission during his previous electoral contests in Lagos State.
The former aspirant wants the court to establish what Adeola declared as his state of origin in those documents and determine whether the information contained in his earlier filings was consistent.
Hunye’s media adviser, Femi Oyewole, disclosed the development in a statement issued in Lagos after a briefing by the aspirant’s lead counsel, Olamide Victor.
Victor said the case was not intended to challenge Adeola’s claim to Yewa ancestry but was focused on the consistency of information allegedly contained in documents sworn to before electoral authorities.
“We are not challenging the indigeneity of Senator Olamilekan Adeola as a Yewa son. What we are bringing before the court is a matter of statutory integrity and constitutional compliance.
“He has held public elective offices over two decades. What state of origin did he declare under oath in his previous INEC nomination forms when he contested in Lagos State? Was it Ekiti State? Was it Lagos State? Any deliberate inconsistency in documents submitted under oath carries severe legal implications,” Victor said.
The disputed historical documents were not presented at the press briefing.
Victor, however, said certified true copies obtained from INEC records would be presented before the court as evidence in the case.
Adeola emerged as the APC’s candidate after the party’s governorship primary held in May 2026.
The electoral committee said he secured 304,055 votes from 305,287 accredited participants, while Hunye was recorded as having scored zero votes.
Hunye subsequently challenged the primary and has continued to maintain that issues surrounding the exercise remain before the courts.
The latest suit also follows the APC’s reaffirmation of Adeola as its recognised candidate for the 2027 Ogun governorship election.
In August, the party said Adeola remained its duly recognised candidate and that his name, together with that of his running mate, Kudirat Abiodun Adegunwa-Balogun, had been submitted to INEC.
The APC also maintained that Hunye had been suspended from the party.
According to the party, Hunye’s ward executives in Tube, Ipokia Local Government Area, took the decision, which was subsequently ratified at the local government and state levels.
The party’s national leadership said the suspension affected Hunye’s standing within the organisation.
Hunye has rejected that position, questioning how the APC could regard him as suspended in April and still accept his purchase of the governorship expression of interest and nomination forms later that month.
He said he paid N50 million for the forms on April 28, 2026, after the date the party said his suspension took effect.
“If I was genuinely suspended on April 7, why did the party accept my N50m payment on April 28? Why was my application processed, and why was I cleared by the screening committee to contest the primary?” he asked.
Hunye said the circumstances surrounding his suspension and participation in the nomination process were among the reasons he decided to seek judicial intervention.
He also clarified that his objective was not for the court to simply pronounce him the APC candidate.
Instead, he said he wanted the judiciary to examine the process through which the party selected its candidate and determine whether the relevant legal provisions were followed.
“I am not asking the media or the public to declare me the candidate. I am asking the judiciary to look at the process, examine the facts under the Electoral Act, and allow the law to take its proper course,” Hunye stated.
The former aspirant has also denied allegations that his legal challenge was being sponsored by the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in Ogun State, Ladi Adebutu.
Hunye described the allegation as an attempt to divert attention from the issues raised in his case, maintaining that his actions were based on his decision to seek judicial determination of what he described as irregularities in the APC nomination process.
The APC national leadership has meanwhile dismissed Hunye’s claim to the party’s governorship ticket and warned against political dealings with him in the name of the APC.
The party said it had directed its lawyers to take legal steps over what it described as misrepresentation and impersonation.
Hunye, however, has maintained that he is pursuing the legal remedies available to him rather than claiming the party’s ticket outside the judicial process.
The 2027 Ogun governorship election is scheduled for February 6, 2027, according to the timetable published by INEC.
