{
  "id": 16997631,
  "title": "LP Chief, AA Candidate to Sue INEC over Alleged Alteration of Ogun PDP Register",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/lp-chief-aa-candidate-to-sue-inec-over-alleged-alteration-of-ogun-pdp",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-29T02:29:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/10/29/lp-chief-aa-candidate-to-sue-inec-over-alleged-alteration-of-ogun-pdp-register/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Dr Arabambi Abayomi, the National Vice Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) in the South-west, and Prof Awofala Awolola, a governorship candidate under the Action Alliance (AA), have threatened to sue the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the alleged unlawful alteration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) membership register. The duo has formally petitioned INEC to preserve the original register and investigate the claims that an affidavit had been sworn to explain the omission of the name of PDP’s governorship candidate, Oladipupo Adebutu, from the document. They expressed their concerns that the alleged affidavit might be used to recognize Adebutu as the PDP’s governorship candidate for the 2027 election in Ogun State. The petitioners argued that an affidavit explaining an omission should not be treated as authority to amend a register retrospectively and referred to a Supreme Court judgment in INEC v. Zenith Labour Party, Appeal No. SC/CV/495/2026.",
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}