ODUNARO’S ZERO VOTE DRAMA: POLITICAL PRESSURE OR A PARALLEL COURTROOM IN YAYI’S CAMP?

Kayode Odunaro, media adviser to Senator Solomon Adeola (Yayi), has once again opened his mouth and poured out pure political hallucination. On radio, he boldly claimed that after “the court verdict,” Abayomi Hunye scored zero votes across all 236 wards of Ogun State. 

Zero. Across every single ward. A man who actually participated in the primary.

That is not politics. That is mathematical nonsense. It is an insult to every APC member who stood in the sun and voted. You cannot score zero in a contest you took part in unless the result was cooked in a secret room and rubber-stamped by people who already decided the outcome. And if Hunye truly had zero support, why is Yayi’s camp spending fortune hopping from one radio station to another trying to bury a man they claim nobody voted for? Panic does not dress itself in confidence.

But the real scandal is not even the zero-vote fiction. It is the court claim.

There is no court verdict. None. The suit – Abayomi Semako Hunye v. APC & 2 Ors – is still pending. Senior Advocates appeared. No judgment was delivered. The matter was simply adjourned to 18 November 2026. So what “court verdict” is Odunaro waving around like a trophy? 

Is he ignorant of how the Nigerian legal system works? Or are Odunaro and his principal running a parallel court system of their own? Or, because they sit close to power, do they believe they can blackmail the judiciary, poison the mind of the judge, and manufacture a verdict in the court of public opinion before the real court even sits again?

This is dangerous. This is reckless. This is the behaviour of people who treat the rule of law as optional when it does not favour them.

Ogun people must watch this carefully. The desperation on display today is a trailer of how Yayi’s camp will treat the people of this state if they ever get the chance. No regard for process. No respect for institutions. Just raw power and propaganda. The nonchalant attitude to the rule of law that begins with Yayi must end with Yayi. For how long will this nonsense continue to be rubbed in the faces of the good people of Ogun?

We have enjoyed relative peace and democratic order in this state since 1999. We will not sit quietly while anyone, especially a foreigner loaded with political garbage, tries to unsettle that peace and turn our politics into a theatre of lies and intimidation.

The courtroom, not radio studios, will decide this matter. Sub-judice rules exist for a reason. Attempting to invent judicial pronouncements before the judge has spoken is an attack on the very foundation of our democracy.

It is high time the good people of Ogun State rise and say enough is enough. The rule of law must prevail. No amount of media trials, fabricated zeros, or parallel-court fantasies will change that.

 _Akeem Adebesin is a political commentator from Onikolobo Abeokuta, Ogun State._

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