Leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, within the Ogun East Senatorial District have expressed their full help for Senator Gbenga Daniel, describing his alleged suspension as “faux and unconstitutional”.
The leaders, representing all 103 wards throughout the district’s 9 native authorities areas, clarified that the purported suspension was reported in Ward 4, not the Senator’s Ward 12.
In August 2025, a trending Fb put up introduced that the State Govt Committee of the APC had ratified a suspension by Ward 4 Excos following the report of a purported Investigation Committee, which was set as much as probe alleged anti-party actions by Senator Gbenga Daniel.
DAILY POST studies that final Wednesday, Lekan Adeniran, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Dapo Abiodun, issued a press release reaffirming that the Senator’s suspension remained in impact, warning that any engagements with him as a celebration member can be invalid.
Adeniran said that the occasion had communicated this place in an official letter to the APC Nationwide Chairman, citing what it described as Daniel’s “continued public disregard for occasion self-discipline” regardless of his suspension.
In keeping with him, the letter, dated October 3, 2025, and collectively signed by the state chairman, Yemi Sanusi, and state secretary, Tella Aderibigbe, indicated that Gbenga Daniel was suspended on August 19, 2025, including that the choice had been formally communicated to him.
Responding on Tuesday at a press convention titled “The State of APC in Ogun State” held in Sagamu, the district occasion leaders challenged the legitimacy of the suspension.
They maintained that the problem was politically motivated, linked to the 2027 elections and the APC ticket for the Ogun East Senatorial District.
Talking on the convention, the senator’s media aide, Steve Oliyide, insisted that the bulletins shouldn’t be taken significantly, noting that there had been no official communication of any offence, no allegation, no invitation to an investigative panel, and no letter of suspension.
He stated, “We’re speaking a few former governor of the state and a serving Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. What occurs to the Chairman of the Occasion within the State? The place is the State Secretary of the occasion? It due to this fact means that such bulletins can’t be given any seriousness, particularly as a result of there was no official communication about any offence, no allegation levied, no invitation to attend any investigative panel, and no letter of suspension.
“We hereby reply as follows: Is it acceptable in a well-structured occasion like ours, the place we now have a state chairman, secretary and different elected officers, for the chief press secretary of the state authorities and an appointee, most particularly the spokesperson of the governor, who himself is an occasion or who has a vested curiosity, to talk for and on behalf of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun State?
“To reply this problem, we now have little question, and let nobody be deceived, that that is all linked to the politics of 2027 and particularly the APC ticket for the Ogun East Senatorial District.”
Equally, Prof. Yemi Oke, SAN, counsel to the method, disclosed {that a} formal letter had been despatched to the APC Ogun State chapter requesting official paperwork relating to the alleged suspension.
Oke additional said that copies of any petitions submitted by members of Ward 4 or 12 towards Gbenga Daniel, in addition to an acknowledged copy of the suspension letter signed by the Senator, needs to be offered.
The press convention was attended by the Senator’s media aide, Steve Oliyide; Yemi Oke (SAN); Remi Hassan; Gen. Olumuyiwa Okunowo (retd); Giwa Niyi-Osoba; Korede Okusanya; Ronke Oduneye; Barr. Babatunde Adesanya; Josephine Makanjuola; Bankole Osisanya; Wole Olubena; Abiodun Adesanya; Dele Osifade; and Ganiyat Busari, amongst others.
