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The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed Governor Ademola Adeleke for his “needlessly jittery and restless” response to the party’s consensus selection of Asiwaju Bola Oyebamiji as its governorship candidate.
In a statement signed by the state APC Director of Media and Information, Mogaji Kola Olabisi, the party said Adeleke’s outbursts against APC National Chairman Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda – who warned that the APC could not afford to lose another state after Anambra – were “balderdash” and reflected the governor’s “lack of what is required to give quality governance” to Osun.
The APC’s criticism comes a day after a smooth primary election in Osogbo on Saturday, 13 December 2025, where 1,660 delegates unanimously affirmed Oyebamiji as the party’s flag‑bearer for the 8 August 2026 governorship poll. President Bola Tinubu has already congratulated Oyebamiji, describing the result as a “right step towards victory” for the APC in Osun.
The party’s statement highlighted several grievances against Adeleke’s three‑year tenure:
- Education: Over 1,500 teachers hired by the previous administration were dismissed, leaving many public schools without staff.
- Health: Hospitals have become “mere consulting centres” due to shortages of drugs and personnel after the governor sacked thousands of health workers employed by his predecessor.
- Governance: The APC accuses Adeleke of “gaffe, ridiculous public appearances and abysmal performance,” and says the people of Osun are “tired of being taken for granted.”
The APC called on Adeleke to “start writing his handover note,” arguing that the factors that helped him win in 2022 no longer exist and that he has “disappointed former PDP leaders who facilitated his controversial election but have now migrated to our party in droves.” It also challenged the governor to a televised debate with Oyebamiji, asserting that the candidate’s “submission and delivery would be sufficient enough to make the partyless Osun State governor rethink his re‑election bid.”
The statement concluded: “Our governorship candidate, Asiwaju Bola Oyebamiji, is not only lettered but also tested, very educated, reliable, witty and resourceful – a serious contender who is going into the election of 8 August 2026 to win.”
Full text of Press Statement below:
PRESS STATEMENT. (14TH DECEMBER, 2025).
The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the embattled state Governor Ademola Adeleke of being needlessly and excessively jittery and restless over the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Oyebamiji as the governorship candidate of the party in the seamless consensus primary election that took place in Osogbo, the state capital, on Saturday 13th December, 2025.
It would be recalled that the governor through his spokesman was throwing needless tantrums at the national chairman of the APC, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, over his assuring statement that the APC could not afford to lose any other state after Anambra State that was won by another party recently.
It is balderdash for the verifiably embattled Governor Adeleke who is yet to know the possibility of having a platform to even contest to continue to engage on the mundane issues that further registered his lack of what is required to give quality governance to the people of the state.
Mr. Adeleke should realise that the people of the state who cannot continue to be taken for granted by his gaffe, ridiculous public appearances and abysmal performance in the public office for the past three years are now wiser that his best are neither desirable nor suitable for the required tools to effectively transform the state.
The influenced and skewed netizens on the social media being bandied by the disorganised governor as being the voices of the independent-minded people asking for his re-election are nothing but a charade which is not capable of conferring any added advantage on his k-legged aspiration.
We understand the myriads of the intractable problems confronting the quasi-partyless Governor Adeleke as it is pretty impossible for someone to have the foreknowledge of his date of death that he would either be at peace with himself or any other person.
It should be known to Governor Adeleke and his co-travellers that just as there are pretenders and contenders, our governorship candidate, Asiwaju Bola Oyebamiji, who is not only lettered but also tested, very educated, reliable, witty and resourceful, is a serious contender who is going into the election of the 8th August, 2026, to win.
The people of Osun State are tired of sighting mere edifices as public schools without teachers for the past three years after the governor had sacked the 1,500 teachers employed by the immediate-past administration of former Governor Gboyega Oyetola now Minister of Marine and Blue Economy.
Should the people of the state continue to watch helplessly as all the hospitals in the state have become mere consulting centres for lack of drugs and manpower as the governor has blatantly refused to replace the thousands of the health workers employed by his predecessor who were vindictively sacked by him immediately he assumed the mantle of leadership in the state?
The paid canvassers for the doubtful reelection bid of Governor Adeleke should henceforth stop mistaking notoriety for popularity as it takes the blessing of the possession of a hindsight for an individual to differentiate between the two key words.
Our advice as a party is that the embattled Governor Adeleke should start writing his handover note as all the factors that worked in his favour in the 2022 election are no longer in existence coupled with the fact that he has disappointed the former leading lights in the PDP that he dumped who facilitated his controversial election but have migrated to our party in droves.
We are challenging Governor Adeleke to a television debate with our charismatic governorship candidate, Asiwaju Bola Oyebamiji, whose submission and delivery would be sufficient enough to make the partyless Osun State governor to have a rethink on his re-election bid.
e-SIGNED:
Mogaji KOLA OLABISI, Osun State APC Director of Media and Information
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