Abayomi Hunye And The Politics Of Nomination Forms As Bargaining Chips: You Have Not Told The Public The Whole Truth!

I came across a press statement credited to Mr. Abayomi Hunye where he raised what he called “serious questions” over the position of the APC in Ogun State, particularly concerning his suspension from the party and his subsequent participation in the governorship primary.

Abayomi Hunye sir, if this is really your position, then it’s a shame. Indeed, you want to be Governor of Ogun State and this is all you’ve got up your sleeves?

The questions you raised in your press statement represent only a half-truth of the situation that led to your suspension as a member of the All Progressives Congress in Tube Ward. If you cannot come clean to the people by stating all the facts, including the errors you committed as an individual, how do you expect the people to have all the information needed to judge the matter rightly?

1. As someone from your Local Government, I am sure you will not argue if I tell the people here and now that this rabble-rousing attitude has become your stock-in-trade at almost every election cycle since 2011.

This is how you have always positioned yourself for political bargains, including appointments, ahead of the emergence of eventual winners. I really don’t blame you for attempting to play the same game again in 2026. The only difference is that the people are now wiser and will no longer allow you to continue playing on their intelligence as though you are the wisest amongst us.

2. You also failed to tell the public the full story surrounding your exit from your last appointment as General Manager of OGWAMA, yet you have the guts to present yourself as someone who should govern Ogun State?

Sir, does the saying, “He who comes to equity must come with clean hands,” not minister to you at all?
Shame!

3. Sir, if you were a fair individual, you would have informed the public in your Press Statement that your suspension did not just fall from the sky. It originated from your own Tube Ward, following issues raised against you by the Ward leadership, including the allegation that you were nurturing a parallel executive and thereby causing division and instability within the party.

You were also accused of anti-party activities and, importantly, of repeatedly failing to honour invitations extended to you to appear before the Disciplinary Committee and respond to the allegations against you.

Eventually, the Ward Executive decided to suspend you from the party.

Why didn’t you include all these in your Press Statement, sir?

Why didn’t you tell the public that there were allegations against you before the suspension? Why didn’t you tell them about the disciplinary invitations you were accused of ignoring?

You cannot leave out everything that happened before your suspension and suddenly begin your story from what happened after your suspension, simply because that is the part that suits your present argument.

And there is even another question, sir: you referred to 7th April 2026, but the suspension process dates back to March. Why didn’t your Press Statement explain that timeline properly?

4. You also conveniently failed to explain that directives and disciplinary processes moving from the Ward through the various levels of the party up to the National level take time and follow a process.

In between that process, you managed to pay for and obtain the governorship nomination form and eventually participated in the exercise.

So, sir, rather than merely asking, “If I was suspended, why was I allowed to participate?” why don’t you also tell the public when the suspension process started, what led to it, what invitations were extended to you, how you responded to them, and at what stage the process was when you obtained your form?

So, rather than playing to the gallery and presenting yourself as the victim, tell the people the whole story. Let them know what happened at Tube Ward, what led to your suspension, the invitations you allegedly failed to honour and the stage the disciplinary process had reached when you obtained your governorship form.

Put everything on the table and allow the people to judge.

At any rate, I feel part of the blame should be dumped on a political system that has always compensated people who obtain forms, make noise around election periods and subsequently negotiate themselves into appointments. Perhaps this is what has emboldened you to believe that the same game can continue in 2026.

But like Tayo Oyekanmi wrote, we will see if this is not your last macabre dance.

Enjoy the attention while it lasts.

Julius Oyedokun is from Idiroko Ward, Ipokia Local Government