Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke has told leaders across Accord, All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party that the state must turn in between 1.5m to 2m votes for President Bola Tinubu in the January 2027 presidential elections.
Adeleke, who is the state coordinator of the campaign made this declaration as he inaugurated the campaign council at a ceremony in Osogbo on Thursday.
In his speech, Governor Adeleke said the presidential campaign council will deliver the President while calling on all allies to work towards achieving this victory.
“We assemble here to mobilise and deliver even more than the 1.5 million votes we earlier promised Mr President.
“In this hall is a gathering of who is who in Osun political terrain. We have all the strikers, the defenders and the midfielders. This rainbow coalition of Accord, APC and PDP structures is superbly potent to deliver Osun overwhelmingly to Mr President come next year January.
Senator Ajibola Basiru, the APC National Secretary praised Governor Adeleke for assuming the role of coordinating the affairs of the presidential campaign council.
He also urged the public to actively participate in the 2027 elections and deliver President Tinubu who has implemented successful projects in infrastructure, healthcare, education and so on.
Basiru said, “The national leadership of our party has decided that the Tinubu/Shettima presidential campaign council should be led and coordinated by Adeleke. The operation, energy, electricity will be felt if the campaign is powerful. For us, in the Osun, irrespective of feelings and our differences, we must support Adeleke for the success of his election and Tinubu for his second term. We have met our current expenditure. When I was Secretary to State, now, there is resource made available by the President, Tinubu.”
“For students, a 4-year course is now 4 years. Get stipend and benefit from the 1.6 million grants from NELFUND. Anyone who ask you for funding, take him or her to NELFUND. On the aspect of infrastructure, roads are built, the ongoing 5,500km of road is in construction by Tinubu, healthcare facilities inclusive.
“It is worthy to note that the fastest growing State in Nigeria is Osun and best performing governor is Adeleke”, the National Secretary of APC remarked.
Chief Bisi Akande, the pioneer National Chairman of APC and former governor of Osun State also praised the capacity of the governor for his exceptional impact in Osun state and expressed his support and pride in having a son of the Yoruba soil at the helm of affairs in Nigeria.
Akande said, “Before I was 75 years of age, I was sleeping from behind, with those who do share money. Today particularly in Osun State we have a great man like Governor Adeleke. Today we have a son of Yoruba land in power, Tinubu. Adeleke has been told to achieve a 2 million votes in January 16, 2027.”
However, the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy and former governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola and the governorship candidate of APC in the last election, Bola Oyebamiji were conspicuously absent from the event.