The Osun State chapter of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it would take over the leadership of the state in 2026.
The APC asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor Ademola Adeleke to prepare for an electoral defeat as they will be out of the government house by 2026.
News About Nigeria reports that the Osun APC Director of Media, Kola Olabisi, said this in response to the boast by the Osun PDP Chairman, Sunday Bisi, that the PDP would rule Osun forever.
Bisi had claimed that given Governor Adeleke’s impressive achievements in office, the party would continue to rule the state because no opposition has been able to do what he has done since he came to power.
Reacting to this claim on Wednesday night, APC’s Olabisi, declared the party’s readiness to end Adeleke’s reign in the next governorship poll.
He said, “We are not moved by the arrogant statement credited to Mr Sunday Bisi, the factional chairman of the Osun State Peoples Democratic Party PDP, that his party would rule the state forever as such a statement is an indication that his party would lose the state to the opposition All Progressives Congress APC in the forthcoming 2026: elections. If we go down memory lane, it is when the PDP is destined to lose an election that such an odious and horrendous statement of ruling the state forever comes out of the handlers of the ill-fated party.
“It is still fresh in the memory of the people of this country how one of the former national chairmen of the PDP haughtily stated that their party would rule the nation for 60 years which eventually resulted in the loss of the party at the national level to the progressive party. We were also in Osun State when the PDP handlers arrogantly stated that the party would rule forever which was proved wrong by the torpedoing of the PDP government by former Governor Rauf Aregbesola.”
