Segun Showunmi, convener of The Alternative and former spokesman of Atiku Abubakar, has rejected the consensus arrangement of the Ogun state chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in fielding it’s gubernatorial candidate.
Governor Dapo Abiodun announced Senator Solomon Adeola alias Yayi in an even held in Osogbo on Monday as the party’s consensus gubernatorial candidate in the state for the 2027 general elections.
In a statement titled: From Magbon to Now: We Will Not Be Conquered. Ogun’s Line in the Sand: Resistance to State Capture, and posted on his X handle, Showunmi argues that this consensus arrangement negates the tenants of democracy.
“Yes, a political party has the right to choose its internal mechanisms, even if that means adopting “consensus” as its preferred pathway. But across every serious political system where consensus has credibility, it rests on one indispensable foundation: integrity. Without that, consensus degenerates into imposition.
“That is precisely the issue before us. Those now attempting to foist this arrangement on Ogun State bring with them no demonstrable record of integrity neither in private conduct, nor in public service, nor in any coherent understanding of the responsibilities of governance. In such circumstances, what is being presented as consensus is, in reality, a crude instrument of control.
“This is how state capture begins. And it must be resisted,” he wrote.
