BC Green Party candidate for MLA in Vancouver-Langara. The party's page calls him a lawyer and a former judge in Nigeria.
John Atoyebi is the BC Green Party candidate in Vancouver-Langara, where Sunita Dhir (BC NDP) won in 2024 by 419 votes over the Conservative Party. His party's candidate page says he is a lawyer, a former Magistrate and District Court Judge in Nigeria and a former investigator at the BC Ombudsperson's office. BC Achievement lists a John Kehinde Atoyebi of Vancouver among its 2026 Community Award recipients. voche.me found no policy statement in his own words on 2026-10-03, so the commitments below are the BC Green Party's platform.
A researched record of John Atoyebi's 2026 candidacy in Vancouver-Langara. Elections BC lists him with the affiliation BC Green Party. voche.me found no statement of policy in his own words on 2026-10-03, so the commitments below are the party's plan.
No public appearance by the candidate was found on 2026-10-03. The party's candidate page lists no upcoming events. The two voting dates come from Elections BC.
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01 / Introduction
About John Atoyebi
Elections BC's candidate list, stamped October 3, 2026, shows three accepted nominations in Vancouver-Langara: John Atoyebi (BC Green Party), Sunita Dhir (BC NDP) and Jaime Stein (Conservative Party). Nominations closed at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026.
The BC Green Party's candidate page calls him John K. Atoyebi and says he is a lawyer, former judge, public-sector investigator and community leader. It says he was a Magistrate and District Court Judge in Nigeria before he immigrated to Canada, worked in retail, traffic control and construction while he completed the requirements to practise law in Canada, and is now a member of the Law Society of British Columbia and the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society. It says he is Principal Legal Counsel at Kebuiii Global Law Corporation. These are the party's statements. voche.me could not check the licences or the earlier roles with the bodies that hold them.
The same page says he spent more than two years as an Investigator at the Office of the Ombudsperson of British Columbia, examining complaints about administrative fairness across more than 75 municipalities, regional districts and improvement districts, and that his work included advising on whistleblower protections under the Public Interest Disclosure Act. It says he serves on the City of Vancouver's Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee, previously served on the Vancouver Heritage Commission, is Secretary of the Vancouver General Hospital Thrift Store Board, and is Executive Director of the BC Black Advocacy Society. It says he is President of the African-Canadian Agricultural Producers Cooperative and a director of the African-Canadian Farmers Society.
The party's page says he holds an LL.B. and an LL.M. in Common Law and a Master of Intellectual Property and Development Policy, and is pursuing an LL.M. at UBC's Allard School of Law, with research on reoffending among Canadians who were previously in prison. It says he received a BC Achievement Foundation Community Award in 2026. BC Achievement's own 2026 Community Award page lists a John Kehinde Atoyebi among the awardees, and its profile of him, which gives his place as Vancouver, describes the same community roles and the same Ombudsperson work. That profile does not mention the candidacy. voche.me treats the two as one person because the party's page names the same award and the same roles.
In the 2024 general election the district went to Sunita Dhir of the BC NDP with 8,506 votes (48.43 percent), according to Elections BC's statement of votes. Bryan Breguet of the Conservative Party received 8,087 (46.05 percent) and Scottford Price of the BC Green Party received 969 (5.52 percent). The statement holds no entry under the name Atoyebi. BC Ballot lists no earlier run, term or finance report for him.
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7 commitments shown · Checked Oct 3
2026 · HousingCampaign pledge
Party platform: 26,000 non-market homes a year
The BC Greens plan page says the party would build and protect 26,000 permanently affordable, non-market homes a year, and make it easier and quicker to build all forms of housing.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's plan page. It does not name John Atoyebi, and voche.me found no statement in his own words that repeats it.
What still needs checking
Does he repeat this commitment in his own campaign?
The BC Greens plan page says the party would pass vacancy control, so landlords cannot raise the rent each time a tenant moves out (a rent limit that stays with the home).
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's plan page. It does not name John Atoyebi, and voche.me found no statement in his own words that repeats it.
What still needs checking
Does he repeat this commitment in his own campaign?
The BC Greens plan page says the party's Fair Share Act would make the few hundred richest people in British Columbia pay their fair share and would bring in a windfall tax (an extra tax) on mega-corporations.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's plan page. It does not name John Atoyebi, and voche.me found no statement in his own words that repeats it.
What still needs checking
Does he repeat this commitment in his own campaign?
Party platform: proportional representation within 100 days
The BC Greens plan page says the party would deliver proportional representation legislation (a voting system where each party's share of seats matches its share of votes) within the first 100 days.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's plan page. It does not name John Atoyebi, and voche.me found no statement in his own words that repeats it.
What still needs checking
Does he repeat this commitment in his own campaign?
voche.me found no elected office held by this candidate in the sources read on 2026-10-03, and so found no voting record to review. His past and present community and professional roles come from the BC Green Party's candidate page and, for some of them, from BC Achievement's profile of a John Kehinde Atoyebi.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
Recent appearances / Read and watch
Talks, interviews & statements
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Accountability / Findings, disputes and responses
Controversies & public scrutiny
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News coverage / Original publishers
Read the reporting
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Research / 9 linked sources
Check the evidence
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
The name search was limited because the WebSearch tool had reached its usage limit. Bing returned unrelated pages, DuckDuckGo showed a verification page, Google returned no result list, and a Google News search for his name returned only pages about other people with similar names. None of those pages was tied to this candidate by a page that was opened, so none is used. No website of his own was found. His X account and an Instagram profile are linked from the party's candidate page. X answered HTTP 402 and was not read. The Instagram page was read through a summary tool only, so nothing from it is used. LinkedIn refused the request, so nothing from it is used. The background facts come from the party's page, and BC Achievement's profile repeats some of them. The Law Society of British Columbia's lawyer directory did not return a result page for a scripted search, so his membership there and in the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society was not checked. His work at the Office of the Ombudsperson, the Nigerian judicial roles, the Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee, the Vancouver Heritage Commission, the Vancouver General Hospital Thrift Store Board, the BC Black Advocacy Society and the two African-Canadian agricultural organizations were not checked with the bodies themselves. The City of Vancouver's pages answered HTTP 403, and the Ombudsperson's home page does not name him. BC Achievement's 2026 Community Award page lists a John Kehinde Atoyebi, and its profile gives Vancouver as his place and describes the same community roles and Ombudsperson work as the party's page. The profile does not mention the candidacy. The party's page states that the candidate received this award, which is the link voche.me relies on, and a person may want to confirm it with BC Achievement. The party's page says he served more than two years as an Ombudsperson investigator and uses the past tense. BC Achievement's profile uses the present tense. The party's plan page says the full platform is coming soon and does not name him. The text of the party's media releases page, read on 2026-10-03, holds neither his name nor Vancouver-Langara. No all-candidates meeting, endorsement, campaign finance record or news report about this candidacy was found on this date. The questionnaire has not been sent.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on 2026-10-03: the Elections BC candidate list, key dates page and 2024 statement of votes; the BC Green Party's candidate page for him, its list of 2026 candidates, its plan page and its media releases page; the BC Achievement Foundation's 2026 Community Award page and its profile of the recipient John Kehinde Atoyebi; and the BC Ballot page for him. The name search was limited because the WebSearch tool had reached its usage limit, so voche.me used Bing, DuckDuckGo and Google News directly. They returned no page about him.
No website of his own was found. His X account, linked from the party's page, answered HTTP 402 and was not read. An Instagram profile linked from the same page was not used, and LinkedIn refused the request. Most of what the page says about him is the BC Green Party's own account, and the independent confirmation voche.me found covers the 2026 BC Achievement award and the profile text published there. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date. The candidate may have published material that these searches did not reach.
03 / Background
Experience & community
2026
BC Achievement Community Award
BC Achievement's Community Award page lists a John Kehinde Atoyebi of Vancouver among the 2026 awardees and gives April 14, 2026 as the date the awardees were announced. The party's candidate page says the candidate received this award.
Principal Legal Counsel, Kebuiii Global Law Corporation
The party's page says he practises in this role and is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia and the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society. voche.me could not check either membership.
Dates not given, more than two years by the party's account
Investigator, Office of the Ombudsperson of British Columbia
The party's page says he examined complaints about administrative fairness at more than 75 municipalities, regional districts and improvement districts, and advised on whistleblower protections under the Public Interest Disclosure Act. BC Achievement's profile of John Kehinde Atoyebi says he works as an Investigator with the BC Ombudsperson. The party's page uses the past tense and the BC Achievement profile the present tense. voche.me has not checked the role with the Ombudsperson's office.
The party's page says he worked on civil and criminal cases. BC Achievement's profile also says he served as a Magistrate and District Court Judge in Nigeria. voche.me has not checked the appointments with a court.
Member, City of Vancouver Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee
The party's page says he serves on it and previously served on the Vancouver Heritage Commission. BC Achievement's profile gives 2024 for the Heritage Commission. The City of Vancouver's pages refused voche.me's request (HTTP 403), so no member list was read.
The party's page calls him its Executive Director. BC Achievement's profile calls him its founder and says he led a summit named "Black Voices in Democracy". voche.me found no page of the society and did not check its registration.
President, African-Canadian Agricultural Producers Cooperative, and director, African-Canadian Farmers Society
The party's page says these roles support farmer training and the production of culturally important foods in British Columbia. voche.me has not checked them with the two organizations.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
Which provincial housing measure would you ask your party to act on first for Vancouver-Langara, and by what date?
No response has been submitted.
What changes to the Public Interest Disclosure Act would you ask the Legislature to make, given your work on whistleblower protections?
No response has been submitted.
How much of the revenue from your party's Fair Share Act would go to community health centres, and by when would the first one open?
No response has been submitted.
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
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Is this an official page for John Atoyebi?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from John Atoyebi's own campaign.
What party is John Atoyebi running with?
John Atoyebi is running for MLA with BC Green Party.
Does John Atoyebi currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for John Atoyebi.
How many sources does this John Atoyebi profile cite?
This profile lists 5 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Why do some questions on John Atoyebi's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to John Atoyebi in a future interview. They have not been sent yet, so the page says plainly that no answer has been supplied instead of leaving the section blank.
When is the election John Atoyebi is running in?
The 2026 British Columbia election, including the MLA race, is decided on October 24, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
Space for campaign updates
No campaign updates yet
Announcements, event details and messages can be added here, with their source and publication date. No campaign submission has been added.
