The ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State and the leading opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday clashed over an alleged leakage of a consensus candidate list of the latter ahead of the 2026 governorship election in the state.
The PDP in a statement signed by its state chairman, Hon. Sunday Bisi, noted that the 2026 off-season governorship election in the state and the 2027 general elections would not be a contest of noise or propaganda but a celebration of performance, trust, and results.
The PDP said the “leaked consensus list” of the APC was another sign of confusion and desperation within a party that has “completely lost touch” with the people.
“What they call consensus is nothing but confusion packaged in the old way. The people have not forgotten their years of deception. Osun will not go backward.
“Osun people know the difference between hardship and hope. They have tested both parties, and they are proudly standing with the PDP, the party that has restored light, dignity, and direction to governance through IMOLE,” the PDP said.
But reacting, the state chapter of the APC expressed its disappointment on the abysmal level the state chapter of the ruling PDP has allegedly slipped to, in order to “fraudulently retain power” in the forthcoming governorship election in the state.
The APC state chairman, Sooko Tajuddeen Lawal, in a statement said, “The handlers of the hopeless party now go around concocting and circulating imaginary and fake list suggesting that the APC has assigned elective positions to certain individuals, a roguery and drudgery we believe is meant to cause disharmony and division in our party.
“That an official statement, affirming the fake list, could emanate from the state chairman of the ruling PDP is to show the abyss into which the PDP has dipped and the satyric desperation of the party to win re-election next year.
“The publication of the false statement by the PDP handlers is a pointer to the fact that they are jittery and they have lost the forthcoming governorship election in the state before it is held.
“What is crystal clear is that there is none of our governorship aspirants who is not capable of sending Governor Ademola Adeleke back to Atlanta in the United States or wherever he might have come from.”
The APC urged the PDP handlers to go back to their drawing board with a view to “planning another subterfuge as this foolishly executed one “can neither sit nor fly; it’s dead on arrival.”
