A former Governor of Osun State and present Minister of Marine and Blue Economic system, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola has struck a deal for a joint ticket
with a member of the Home of Representatives representing Obokun/Oriade constituency, Wole Oke, to contest the 2026 governorship election underneath the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), authoritative sources have mentioned.
Political observers mentioned the ambition of Oke to be Deputy Governor underneath the platform of the APC and the continued romance between them should have been the explanations for the serial assaults on Governor Ademola Adeleke by the legislator.
The concluded plan by the Minister to accept Wole Oke as his working mate for the 2026 Osun governorship election on APC platform, was mentioned to have obtained the blessing and endorsement of the social gathering management within the state.
As a part of his efforts to revive his political fortunes in Osun State, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola has reportedly concluded association with Hon. Wole Oke, who’s at the moment in PDP, to fly the ticket of the APC for 2026.
This transfer, in line with a number of sources will provoke help from Osun East and destabilize the ruling PDP within the State.
Regardless of sturdy considerations of contempt amongst the Osun APC leaders and stakeholders favouring the Osun West Senatorial District, one of many core points within the construct as much as 2018 and 2022 election, Oyetola has seemingly been to lure Oke into the APC with a joint ticket in 2026.
A supply mentioned, “Oke’s steady open rebuke of Governor Ademola Adeleke’s administration in Osun State has been traced to a floor plan to betray the Governor and divide the PDP to create a possibility for the APC to launch a attainable comeback to Bola Ige Home.
“Oke has visited Oyetola greater than 10 occasions since this 12 months in a number of areas in Lagos, Abuja and out of doors Nigeria with a promise to make sure that Adeleke is sacked from workplace in 2026.
“Satisfied that he is not going to safe an automated ticket for 2027, for the seventh (seventh) consecutive election, he has resorted to sabotaging the possibilities of the PDP and Governor Adeleke in 2027, and has made two calls for from the APC, a joint ticket with Oyetola or a Senate ticket, having realized that the Oriade/Obokun federal constituency stakeholders and electorates is not going to return him once more to the Inexperienced Chamber, for the sixth (sixth) time period.
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“Hon. Wole Oke desires to contest for Osun Governor in 2030 and he doesn’t need to be politically irrelevant between 2027 and 2030. He has misplaced the backing of all political stakeholders in his federal constituency to contest once more in 2027. They’ve advised him that is his final alternative and that’s the reason he’s combating everybody. His relationship with APC is only for one factor; political relevance”.
However after assessing the risks of working towards Senator Fadahunsi in Osun East Senatorial District, Oke has settled for a Deputy Governorship ticket with Oyetola.
This was agreed throughout a high-powered assembly that came about in Abuja, in the course of 2024. On the assembly, Oke boasted of getting management of about 80% of all political leaders in Ijesha zone, together with a number of members of Osun State Home of Meeting and might affect their motion into the APC anytime.
Nevertheless, sources throughout the State APC have confirmed sturdy opposition to this improvement as many stakeholders have rejected the thought of the social gathering ignoring the Osun West Senatorial District once more, provided that the present Governor is from the District after a number of years of neglect of the District, significantly by the APC.
A supply mentioned, “As we converse, a former Governor and nationwide chief of the APC has rejected the proposal and insisted that Wole Oke’s political affect is exaggerated. Dindings from the ruling social gathering have proven that each one political leaders from Obokun/Oriade and the Ijesha Zone have abandoned the lawmaker in his try and destabilize the ruling PDP and as such can not ship enough help from the zone.
“Many APC leaders are livid with this risk. They know they can’t belief Wole Oke, they’ve requested him what number of Commissioners, Particular Advisers and Meeting members from the ruling PDP he’s coming with. However he has but to offer them any title. They imagine he simply desires to make use of them.”
