The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has concluded plan to boycott today’s inauguration of the state Presidential Campaign Committee for the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the forthcoming 16th January, 2027 election to be co-ordinated by the state Governor Ademola Adeleke.
The party in a statement by its Chairman, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, said Adeleke failed to brief them on the development as the coordinator of the council.
Lawal said he and other leaders of the APC also sighted the list of the Campaign Council on social media like everyone
The statement read, “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.
“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.”