2026: Ex-Osun gov aspirant dissolves marketing campaign crew, backs APC’s Oyebamiji

A former governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State, Dr Akin Ogunbiyi, has directed his marketing campaign coordinators and supporters throughout Federal Constituencies and native authorities areas within the state to hitch the marketing campaign construction of the get together’s candidate, Bola Oyebamiji.

Ogunbiyi, who’s the chairman of Mutual Advantages Assurance Plc, gave the directive in Osogbo, Osun State capital, on Saturday throughout an appreciation assembly with the management and members of his marketing campaign organisation, Idera De Motion, drawn from the 30 native authorities areas within the state.

He inspired his supporters to attract precious classes from the occasions that performed out through the battle for the APC governorship ticket and settle for the choice of the get together, including that the emergence of Oyebamiji, a politician from the West Senatorial District, has addressed one of many calls for of the District.

“First, we’re very completely happy as a result of I’m from the West Senatorial and we would like the governorship candidate to emerge from the Osun West. We’re grateful to God that, that one has occurred.

“As for my perception and imaginative and prescient to manipulate the state. That has turn into a secondary problem now {that a} candidate of the get together has emerged. So, I’ve come to transient my supporters throughout the state that there isn’t any extra grouping. Identical to all of us, aspirants, 9 of us, all of us comply with work for the get together.

“Everybody of us had a gathering and we resolved that everybody of us will work. We are going to do the whole lot inside our respective constituencies to make sure that Bola Oyebamiji emerges because the governor of Osun State from August this yr,” Ogunbiyi stated.

Talking on the efforts to rally the citizens within the Iwo Federal Constituency behind the APC governorship candidate, Ogunbiyi who stated voters within the three native authorities areas that make up the constituency are as much as 170,000, stating that the “Progressives ought to rely on Iwo. As we have now at all times achieved up to now, we’ll nonetheless ship for Oyebamiji and we’ll ship for APC.”

Talking on his future political ambition, the insurance coverage skilled stated the following governorship election can be given precedence consideration, emphasising that “A very powerful factor is for Bola Oyebamiji to emerge because the elected governor. If that occurs, by the grace of God, I, Akin Ogunbiyi, from Iwo Federal constituency, by the particular grace of God and the assist of our leaders, I’ll emerge because the Senatorial candidate of the West.”

The PidomNigeria reviews that Ogunbiyi, alongside six different aspirants that embrace ex-Osun Deputy Governor, Senator Iyiola Omisore, had been barred from contesting the APC governorship major held on December 13, 2025, citing gaps and irregularities of their nomination processes.

The eventual winner, Bola Oyebamiji and an ex-member of the Osun State Home of Meeting, Mulikat Abiola, had been nevertheless cleared to proceed to the first by the committee.

Though the choice by the APC Screening Committee to bar the affected aspirants initially led to stress.

The problems had been nevertheless resolved and all of the disqualified aspirants, besides Omisore, witnessed and took part within the governorship major of the get together held in Osogbo.