The Engineer Kayode Ojo Campaign Organization has lodged a formal protest with the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), rejecting the provisional clearance granted to its principal, Engr. Kayode Ojo, by the Ekiti State Governorship Screening Committee.
In a petition addressed to the APC National Chairman and copied to other key party officials, the campaign organization described the committee’s finding—that Ojo failed to secure the mandatory five valid nominators per local government—as “baseless” and “founded on a fraudulent party register.”
The group insisted that Engr. Ojo fully complied with Article 9(1) of the APC Constitution and Paragraph 6(c) of the party’s Guidelines for Nomination of Candidates. It further presented affidavits and membership slips of Ojo’s nominators, whom it described as registered, financially up-to-date members of the APC.
According to the petition, the nominators include immediate past members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, former local government chairmen, and former LGA parliament leaders—figures whose membership status, it argued, could not be legitimately disputed.
The campaign organization went further to allege “gross misconduct and criminal forgery” against Governor Biodun Oyebanji and some state party executives, accusing them of deliberately deleting names of valid members from the party’s register in a bid to sabotage Ojo’s candidacy.
“This was a premeditated act to subvert the will of the people and secure Governor Oyebanji’s return ticket by fraudulent means,” the petition stated.
The Demands
The campaign called on the APC NWC to:
Overturn the provisional clearance and affirm Engr. Ojo’s eligibility.
Launch a full investigation into the alleged forgery of the membership register.
Discipline all individuals found culpable, including Governor Oyebanji and state party officials.
Take direct control of the Ekiti governorship primary to guarantee fairness and transparency.
The group warned that failure to address the matter could damage the APC’s reputation and electoral prospects in Ekiti State.
Attached to the petition, it noted, were evidences of membership of all the questioned nominators.