Osun APC Kicks Against Non Inclusion In Preparation For Launch Of State PCC

By Ayodele Oni

With all set for the inauguration of the Osun state chapter of the Presidential Campaign Committee, (PCC), for the re-election of President Bola Tinubu the State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) has said it was not briefed about the inauguration.

The state Coordinator of the campaign council, Governor Ademola Adeleke, had in  a statement, announced that the inauguration is scheduled to hold Thursday 22nd October, 2026 at the Oasis Event center, Osogbo.

Governor Adeleke, said that the state body is billed to comprise a bipartisan list of political leaders and office holders.

He revealed that the council is made up of All Progressive Congress, the Accord and the Peoples Democratic party (PDP) members.

However, in a statement on Thursday, the Osun APC Chairman, Tajudeen Lawal, said the party only became aware of the event through a social media listing of names by the spokesperson of Governor Adeleke, Olawale Rasheed.

“In as much as we consider the re-election of the national leader of our party, President Tinubu, as a collective task which we have been working vigorously and assiduously to achieve through various means, it is our view and conviction that such an exercise should be properly scheduled.

“We are talking about the re-election of the President of the nation under the largest democratic party in the Sub-Sahara Africa and not the election of a council chairman or that of a councillor, which is the reason such exercise should be approached with the highest official protocol required to ease the accomplishment of the exercise.”

Lawal believed that less than 12 hours notice was too short and has shut out many who would have attended.

“We are reiterating the fact that we did not have the knowledge of any inauguration beyond the social media listing of some names yesterday afternoon by the spokesman of Governor Adeleke, Malam Olawale Rasheed, to the chagrin of the leaders, members and supporters of our party.

“Aside the fact that not all social media news should be taken as genuine, less than 12 hours notice is such short that many people who would have been around are already shut out.

“It is our belief that listing of the names of the members of the state Presidential Campaign Committee less than 24 hours before the event proper without any prior meeting with the leadership of the party in the state was a ploy to set the state chapter of the party against the President which can neither fly nor sit as we consider the project as our baby which shouldn’t be handled with levity.

“In our view, the current arrangement of the said state Presidential Campaign Committee was designed to stoke and promote an avoidable misunderstanding between our party and the appointed state co-ordinator of the campaign in the state which we shall try as much as possible to avoid.

“We are reiterating the fact that we are not opposed to conceding anything for the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the forthcoming presidential election but our concern is that things should be done in a proper way to achieve desired results.

“We also agree that the appointment of Governor Adeleke as the state co-ordinator of President Tinubu re-election campaign committee would boost the chances of our presidential candidate through the joint efforts and contributions of the political parties coming together,” he added