- Safiu Kehinde
Osun State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has trolled the state governor
, Ademola Adeleke, and Nigerian afrobeat musician, David Adeleke (Davido), over their visit to President Bola Tinubu.
NPO Reported that the Adeleke had alongside his brother, Deji Adeleke, and Davido paid a courtesy visit to Tinubu at his Lagos residence on Tuesday.
This had stirred concerns among the APC governorship aspirants as speculations of Adeleke’s defection ahead of the 2026 gubernatorial election in the state.
While the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had debunked the speculations, reiterating that the governor remains a bonafide member of the state’s ruling party, Osun APC leaders had also ruled out possible return of the Adeleke to the party.
Further reacting, the Osun APC in a statement issued on Thursday by its Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, taunted the Adelekes over their visit to the President.
Olabisi held that the visitation was borne out of desperation and confusion.
He maintained that it does not have any significant political implications on the APC governorship aspirants.
According to him, Tinubu, being a grandmaster of partisan politics, has the whole country as his constituency and any one has the right to visit him irrespective of political persuasion, religious leaning and ethnic background.
“The visit of David Adeleke popularly known as ‘Davido’ who led his father, Dr Deji Adeleke and his uncle, the Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke, to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his Lagos residence on Tuesday does not have any significant political implications on the governorship aspirants of the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as it is more or less a non-issue.
“Taking into cognizance the fact that the host President Tinubu is a grandmaster of partisan politics should be part of the reasons why no one should have a sleepless night over the said controversial visit.
“We shouldn’t forget the fact that the President has the whole country as his constituency and any one irrespective of political persuasion, religious leaning and ethnic background has the right to visit the nation’s President as long as such visit is not capable of causing cataclysm to the number one citizen of the country.” Olabisi wrote.
While reiterating that the party remains intact, the APC chieftain held that the party has qualified aspirants when can oust Adeleke out of power by 2026.
He held that the governor is under emotional torment over his alleged hatred, past criticism, and antagonism of the President reform policies.
“Our party is intact in our state and I am eminently qualified to state that we have an array of capable and qualified governorship aspirants who have been consulting with interest groups about their 2026 gubernatorial aspirations, to take over from the current bumbling and fumbling governor and give quality leadership to the people of Osun State.
“The troubled looks on the faces of the three visitors to the President indicated a pointer to the fact that if something was not chasing them or they were definitely chasing something.
“It was only Governor Ademola, his brother, Deji and nephew, Davido who could feel where their shoes were pinching them but definitely, there is fire on the mountain for the trio and the Osun State chapter of the PDP.
“Whereas there is nothing strange in a state governor visiting the number one citizen of the nation, especially during the festivities, but when a combative governor, who has been full of hate and bile towards the same President engaged in such an emergency visit, then one can hazard a guess about the emotional torment of the said governor.
“Unlike other state governors who are even of the PDP extractions, it is on record that Governor Adeleke has never openly aligned with the President on his economic policy.” He said.
Olabisi further accused Adeleke of sponsoring media propaganda and activities aimed at ridiculing Tinubu.
Citing the video of some pupils calling the President a thief as an instance, Olabisi held that Adeleke will be kicked out of office in 2026 by residents of the state as well as students of the University of Ilesa who he claimed are unhappy with the governor over the hike in their tuition fees.
“He and his horde of media propagandists have used every media space available to them to ridicule and belittle the President and his government.
“There is no record of how Governor Adeleke has appealed to Osun State citizens to cooperate with the Federal Government on its nouvelle economic policy, as we have seen many sensible PDP governors often do to douse the tension engendered by the Federal Government economic reform policies that are now yielding dividends.
“Rather the Osun State Government, in its steeped mischief, is reportedly recruiting field agents in rural areas to engage in door-to-door campaigns of calumny against the President and his ministers who are working assiduously to bring reliefs to the Nigerian compatriots.
“The video of the pupils of Oba Laoye Grammar School, Ede-South Local Government Council Area of Osun State, ostensibly sponsored to call President Tinubu “Ole, thief” and other unprintable names sometimes ago is still trending in the social media.
“We thank President Bola Tinubu for hosting the Adelekes in his palatial home. At least, it will be on record that when the governor is punished at the poll in 2026 by the angry university students, markets women and artisans whose Adeleke’s poor management of the economy has impacted negatively on their well-being, he would not have any President to throw under the bus for his electoral misfortune next year.
“University of Ilesa students who are coughing out N1.5 million as school fees yearly, for instance, can’t wait to kick their troubler out of office in the coming election.” The Osun APC chieftain added.