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The Director General of the All Progressives Congress campaign organisation, Oluwole Oke, has said the party’s governorship candidate, Bola Oyebamiji, will defeat the incumbent governor, Ademola Adeleke, before 10:00pm on election day.
Oke made the assertion on Wednesday during the inauguration of more than 800 members of the party’s campaign council for the 2026 governorship election in Osun State.
He criticised the management of state resources under the current administration, stating that Oyebamiji was prepared to “rescue Osun from the drift of collapse being plunged into by the current administration.”
According to him, the campaign council was resolute in its objective to unseat Adeleke, declaring that “removing Adeleke is non-negotiable, as his days in office are numbered.”
The party had earlier announced members of the campaign council, with Oke appointed as Director General, alongside other coordinators across the senatorial districts.
Speaking at the inauguration, Oke said the council had commenced mobilisation and grassroots campaigns following its announcement.
He alleged that the present administration had failed across multiple sectors, including education, health, agriculture, and mining, adding that public institutions were no longer functioning as expected.
“The incumbent is gone. His days in office are numbered. The truth remains that the government has failed the people of Osun State on all fronts,” Oke said.
He added, “It is unfortunate that their sing-song is paying salary, forgetting that workers deserve pay. It is not an achievement that someone is paying salary.”
Oke stated that the party was committed to addressing socio-economic challenges, including poverty, unemployment, and governance, promising programmes aimed at improving welfare and restoring what he described as the state’s “lost glory.”
“I have always said this: we are experts in removing a sitting governor. We will remove Adeleke before 10:00pm on 15th August 2026. Bola Oyebamiji will win and be declared the validly elected governor of Osun,” he said.
The campaign council comprises several committees, including Peace and Resolution, Contact and Mobilisation, Women Mobilisation, Media and Publicity, Youth and Civil Society, Social Engagement, Research and Strategy, Legal, Medical, Diaspora, Multiface Interface, Entertainment, and Non-indigene committees, each led by designated chairpersons and secretaries.
Former lawmaker who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani, has picked up the All Progressives Congress, APC, Expression of Interest and Nomination forms in a bid to return to the upper legislative chamber in 2027.
Sani picked up the form in Kaduna State on Tuesday ahead of the party’s primary elections.
The 58-year-old politician represented Kaduna Central in the Senate after winning the election in 2015.
The human rights activist has remained a prominent voice in Nigeria’s political landscape, making notable contributions to national issues.
His decision is expected to shape the dynamics of the contest in the district, given his grassroots appeal and political experience.
The Eastern Updates reports that APC primary elections will commence on May 15, 2026, starting with the House of Representatives, followed by the Senate.
The opposition’s search for a single presidential candidate to face the All Progressives Congress in 2027 moved off the public stage on Monday, with former President Goodluck Jonathan and African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain Peter Obi sitting down for closed-door talks in Abuja.
The meeting was confirmed by the ADC Vanguard, the mobilisation arm of the ADC coalition, in a series of posts on its X handle. The group described the engagement as high-level, and said the discussion centred on the question of whether Nigeria’s fragmented opposition can converge behind one flagbearer ahead of the next general election.
Obi did not arrive alone. He was accompanied by a delegation drawn from the South-East, including Igbo elders, senators aligned with the ADC from the zone, and a circle of political associates — a composition that read less as a courtesy call and more as a regional bloc presenting itself at the negotiating table. The optics matter. Any consensus arrangement that excludes the South-East, or that fails to engage Obi’s base in particular, has limited chance of holding through to a campaign.
