A gaggle of All Progressives Congress, APC, members in Osun State staged a peaceable protest on Friday on the get together’s secretariat in Ogo-Oluwa, Osogbo, voicing opposition to reported plans to supply Governor Ademola Adeleke an automated ticket because the APC’s candidate for the 2026 gubernatorial election.
The protesters, who gathered on the get together’s headquarters, carried placards and chanted slogans condemning what they described as an try and impose Adeleke on the get together with out due course of.
Talking on behalf of the protesters, Taofeek Afolabi, who recognized himself as a youth chief throughout the get together, emphasised that whereas they weren’t against Adeleke’s membership within the APC, he shouldn’t be given a free cross to safe the get together’s governorship ticket.
“We’re not saying the get together ought to reject Gov. Ademola Adeleke if he joins us, however he should contest pretty like each different aspirant. There needs to be no automated ticket,” Afolabi mentioned.
Different protesters echoed related considerations, sustaining that the get together should uphold democratic values by conducting a clear and aggressive main to pick out its candidate for the 2026 election.
Reacting to the event, a celebration govt who spoke on situation of anonymity expressed shock on the protest, stating that no prior discover was given.
“We didn’t know they had been coming. This type of protest is just not acceptable as a result of it might create the unsuitable impression that the demonstration was orchestrated or endorsed by the get together management,” the official mentioned.
The protest, which lasted for a number of hours, ended with out incident. As of the time of this report, the state APC management had but to launch an official assertion addressing the protest or the allegations surrounding the proposed automated ticket for Governor Adeleke.
