Stop blaming Tinubu, Oyetola for your woes – APC replies Adeleke

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has urged the state Governor, Ademola Adeleke, to desist from heaping blame on President Bola Tinubu and the immediate-past governor of the state, Adegboyega Oyetola, over his political woes.

The party, in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Kola Olabisi, obtained in Osogbo on Tuesday, said Adeleke, while speaking at a campaign rally in Osogbo on Monday, accused the duo of Tinubu and Oyetola of being responsible for his political misfortune in the state towards the forthcoming governorship election.

The APC also said Adeleke at the rally, reminded Tinubu that he saw no reason for what he called his political persecution despite the fact that he has endorsed Tinubu as the presidential candidate of the Accord Party in the 2027 election.

Olabisi said Adeleke also at the rally accused the police of compromise against his government, reminded his supporters that he remained the Chief Security Officer of the state.

Expressing dismay over the allegations against Tinubu and Oyetola, Olabisi said Adeleke was responsible for fuelling, promoting and bankrolling political violence in the state.

“The unsubstantiated allegations of Governor Adeleke, who covers his inadequacy by resorting to dancing when an injection of intellect is needed against President Tinubu, and Oyetola are misplaced and frivolous, as such amount to making a justification for his imminent defeat in the forthcoming governorship election.

“One would have expected the sinking governor to state in his needless political inciting statement session at the rally to give the reasons why he has made the State Government House a refuge for the political hoodlums who have been on the wanted list of the police and why he has been empowering the dangerous political thugs with juicy political appointments.

“The discerning minds in the society would have been anxious to know the reason why, a few days to the governorship election in the state, the drowning and desperate governor has been granting undeserved and questionable amnesty to some of the dangerous political thugs serving various jail terms in the correctional centres across the state?” Olabisi said.

He stated that competition was strange to Adeleke, the reason he was “crying of political persecution all over the place without any tangible proof to establish his frivolous allegations.”

He reminded the governor that the endorsement of Tinubu as his presidential candidate in the 2027 election was not forced on him and the decision would not be the reason why he should not be prepared for a free and fair contest in the forthcoming Osun governorship election.

“Why the worry if it is true that Governor Adeleke has done well for his state, as the forthcoming 15th August, 2026 governorship election will be a yardstick to measure his claim in this regard?

“No one is contesting Governor Adeleke being the constitutional chief security officer of the state, while the crux of the matter is why is it that it is the same self-acclaimed state CSO that has been the architect of the series of security breaches in the state?” he further said.