A group, Progressive Students Movement (PSM), has protested the replacement of Olujobi Ezekiel Fayoyin by the Ogun state chapter of New Nigerian People Party (NNPP) as its governorship candidate, describing it as an “injustice.”
Addressing Journalists during a solidarity protest at the party’s national secretariat Abuja on Friday, the President of the group, Okereafor Bestman, lamented that Fayoyin is known to be the party’s governorship candidate in the state but was substituted with another name.
Okereafor called on leadership of the party to do the needful as the forthcoming general elections won’t be business as usual, adding the youth would be the major determinants.
He said: “We are in Abuja today basically to register solidarity with one of us, Olujobi Ezikiel Fayoyi, a 35-year-old who was short changed by the New Nigerian people Party (NNPP) in Ogun state. He was supposed to be the gubernatorial candidate but was short changed by an older person.
“We as progressive inclined persons, Nigerian youth felt it is injustice on our part and from the New Nigerian peoples party. We thought the party would have done well by considering this young person so as to enable him to show his capacity. The 2023 election would not be business as usual because Nigerian youth would be the major determinants.
“We saw in the media lots of his consultation from one place to another as the gubernatorial candidate in Ogun state, only for us to see it in the media that his name had been replaced by someone else. We suspected foul play at the party’s national secretariat and we believed the national Secretariat would do well by retracing their steps in the best interest of Nigerian youth.”
