Osun APC, Accord Party conflict over assaults on Oyebamiji, Oyetola

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of utilizing proxies to launch assaults on the occasion’s governorship candidate, Bola Oyebamiji, and former Governor Adegboyega Oyetola.

The allegations have been contained in a press release signed by the APC State Chairman, Tajudeen Lawal, and made out there to our correspondent on Sunday in Osogbo.

Lawal claimed Adeleke and his supporters had “turn into belligerent over their visibly deprived place within the political calculation of the state.”

He added, “Now we have noticed the orchestrated efforts of the injured and embittered Mr. Adeleke and his co-travellers, their coordinated efforts to both sponsor hatchet writers or straight heap tantrums on the chief of our occasion within the state, His Excellency, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, now the Minister of Marine and Blue Financial system, and the Asiwaju Bola Oyebamiji, the not too long ago elected governorship candidate of our occasion who emerged in a seamless consensus major election penultimate Saturday.”

Lawal additional accused Adeleke’s political camp of sleepless nights over their “fruitless efforts” to cowl what he described as “the evident monumental failure of the Governor Adeleke-led administration,” including that their struggles have been “predicated on the results of a pacesetter who completely fails to plan.”

He additionally warned, “We wish to remind Governor Adeleke and his cohorts that it’s neither Oyetola nor Oyebamiji that was chargeable for their ill-fated standing within the political historical past of the state, of which their imminent defeat by means of the eighth August, 2026 election is a achieved deal.”

The APC chairman questioned Adeleke’s administration on its efficiency, asking, “Was it Oyetola or Oyebamiji that instructed you to run your authorities with deceit and subterfuge, which have subsequently boomeranged and transited you into your present political pariah? Was it the duo of our leaders who directed you to carry out abysmally within the well being, schooling, transport, safety, welfare, provision of social infrastructure, finance, native authorities, and chieftaincy affairs sectors, amongst others?”

In response to APC’s allegations, the Osun Accord Party chairman, Victor Akande, described the assaults as an indication of desperation.

He mentioned, “The craze, the lies and the incoherent assaults are subsequently inevitable signs of frustration, not power.”

Akande listed what he described as achievements of the Adeleke administration, contrasting them with the APC period.

“Even whereas watching Governor Adeleke’s administration from afar, the Accord in Osun State has been genuinely astonished by the seen turnaround in Osun State inside simply three years, a pointy distinction to the APC years, that are at present greatest remembered as better-forgotten seasons of malfeasance and administrative wickedness.

“Not like the APC period, the place Osun employees have been wickedly subjected to the intermittent and dehumanising cost of half salaries, Governor Adeleke has prioritised employees’ welfare, restored consistency in wage funds, addressed arrears and introduced again dignity to labour.”

He added, “It’s the peak of cowardice and callousness for the Gboyega Oyetola faction of the APC, the very architects of this half-salary catastrophe, to now dodge accountability, deny historical past and fake innocence. Osun employees know their tormentors, and historical past won’t neglect.”

Osun State politics has been extremely aggressive and contentious lately, notably between the APC and the PDP.

Within the 2022 governorship election, PDP’s Senator Ademola Adeleke defeated the incumbent APC governor, Gboyega Oyetola, securing 403,371 votes towards Oyetola’s 375,027. Adeleke’s victory ended the APC’s 12-year maintain on the state, throughout which former Governor Rauf Aregbesola (2010–2018) and Oyetola (2018–2022) led the occasion in Osun.

The election consequence was initially challenged in courtroom by Oyetola, and authorized disputes over the end result continued into early 2023, contributing to ongoing political tensions between the APC and the ruling PDP within the state.

As preparations speed up for the 2026 governorship election, political rivalry has intensified, with events such because the APC and smaller events just like the Accord Party positioning their candidates and responding to criticisms. Allegations and counter‑accusations amongst these events mirror the deep-rooted political contest and efforts by either side to form public notion forward of the ballot.