BREAKING: Ex-NIWA MD Oyebamiji emerges Osun APC gov candidate

The fast previous Managing Director of the Nationwide Inland Waterways Authority, Bola Oyebamiji, on Saturday emerged because the consensus candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the forthcoming Osun State governorship election.

Oyebamiji’s emergence adopted a movement moved by two governorship aspirants, Kunle Adegoke (SAN) and Senator Babajide Omoworare, on the major election venue positioned inside the premises of Ebunoluwa Group of Colleges, Osogbo.

The Chairman of the APC governorship major committee and Governor of Edo State, Monday Okpebholo, thereafter subjected the movement to a voice vote, which acquired overwhelming help from occasion members current on the major.

Okpebholo subsequently declared, “By the ability conferred on me, I current to you Bola Oyebamiji, because the governorship candidate of our occasion.”

The PidomNigeria earlier reported that the APC governorship major in Osun State commenced in Osogbo, the state capital, with the arrival of the committee chairman, Monday Okpebholo, who famous that the candidate will emerge by affirmation.

He arrived on the venue alongside the co-chairman of the committee, Governor Fortunate Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State, and different members of the governorship major committee, together with Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, who represented the Lagos State Governor, and former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello.

Earlier on Tuesday, 1660 delegates that may elect the APC candidate within the December 13 governorship major of the occasion emerged.

There have been additionally clear indications that the seven  APC governorship aspirants within the state had stepped right down to again a consensus flagbearer after a late-night assembly with President Bola Tinubu on the State Home, Abuja, on Wednesday.

A former APC Nationwide Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore, on Wednesday, talking on a TVC Information programme, Politics Tonight, declared his help for the occasion’s association to decide on a consensus candidate for the 2026 Osun State governorship election.

Omisore, who was amongst seven aspirants disqualified by the APC Screening Committee for alleged violations of occasion pointers and electoral provisions, mentioned he accepted the choice following steering from President Bola Tinubu.