Our intervention is not borne out of bitterness or an attempt to settle personal scores. It is a patriotic call for introspection, accountability and corrective action within our party. The APC cannot afford to repeat the circumstances that contributed to its defeat in 2026
Your Excellency sir,
Our intervention is not borne out of bitterness or an attempt to settle personal scores. It is a patriotic call for introspection, accountability and corrective action within our party. The APC cannot afford to repeat the circumstances that contributed to its defeat in 2026, particularly as the 2027 Presidential and National Assembly elections approach.
We believe the party’s post-election assessment must go beyond examining the activities of opposition parties and electoral circumstances. It must also investigate whether individuals within the APC deliberately or inadvertently worked against the collective interest of the party.
One of the most troubling issues requiring urgent attention is the performance of the party’s National Secretary, particularly in his immediate political constituency.
For the second consecutive time, the National Secretary reportedly lost his ward and his Local Government, Osogbo, to the opposition in a governorship election.
While electoral defeat in itself is not evidence of sabotage, the recurrence of such a result involving a senior national officer of the party raises serious questions that deserve objective investigation.
More troubling are reports and political narratives surrounding the alleged motivations behind his conduct during the 2022 and 2026 election cycles.
According to reports making the rounds within the party, there was a belief that if His Excellency, Adegboyega Oyetola CON, had won his re-election in 2022 and remained Governor of Osun State, the National Secretary, who was then a Senator from the same senatorial district as the former Governor, would have had little or no realistic opportunity to emerge as the APC’s governorship candidate in 2026.
It has therefore been alleged that this political calculation informed his alleged opposition to the party’s interest in 2022.
We believe this allegation should not be dismissed without investigation. If political ambition was indeed allowed to influence the fortunes of the APC in 2022, it would represent a grave betrayal of party loyalty and a dangerous precedent for the future.
Fast-forward to 2026, another political calculation appeared to emerge.
The Osun West governorship agenda had gained significant momentum, while the National Secretary, according to party discussions, was interested in securing the governorship ticket from Osun Central.
When the party’s preference eventually shifted towards the Osun West agenda, questions arose regarding the level of commitment of the National Secretary to the party’s eventual candidate and campaign.
It is on record, according to party members, that the National Secretary did not meaningfully join the struggle for the actualisation of the party’s governorship project until only a few days before the election.
Even more importantly, party members have questioned the extent of his material, political and organisational contribution to the campaign before his late involvement.
One therefore asks: why?
Why would a national officer of the party remain seemingly distant from a major governorship struggle for such an extended period, only to become visibly involved when the election was already close?
These questions deserve answers—not accusations without evidence, but a transparent investigation capable of separating fact from political speculation.
There are also unconfirmed reports that the National Secretary allegedly told close political allies that his governorship ambition would be more feasible under another four years of an Ademola Adeleke administration and an Accord Party-controlled political environment than under an eight-year administration of an APC government led by Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji (AMBO).
We stress that this is an unconfirmed report, and we do not present it as an established fact.
However, because of the gravity of the allegation and the position occupied by the individual concerned, it deserves to be investigated by the appropriate party authorities.
If such a political calculation existed, it could explain why some followers and political associates allegedly embraced the “Osogbo 2030” narrative during the 2026 election.
The concern is that an agenda ostensibly presented as a future political project may have been deployed in a manner that weakened the immediate objective of the APC—namely, the election of its governorship candidate, AMBO, in 2026.
If party members were deliberately encouraged to prioritise a future personal ambition over the immediate success of the party, then the issue transcends personal politics. It becomes a question of party discipline and loyalty.
The APC must therefore investigate whether the “Osogbo 2030” agenda was merely an independent political aspiration or whether it was strategically used to undermine the party’s 2026 governorship campaign.
We are equally concerned about reports of a backdoor arrangement through which some supposedly aggrieved members of the party were facilitated to meet with Your Excellency only a few days before the Osun governorship election.
At a time when the party required unity and a common purpose, any attempt to create parallel channels of communication or present a sectional narrative to the President could have further complicated an already delicate political situation.
We therefore urge Your Excellency to establish the circumstances surrounding such meetings, who facilitated them, what representations were made and whether the information presented accurately reflected the situation within the Osun APC.
Another matter requiring investigation is the purported survey report on the Osun governorship election allegedly conducted and presented to the National Working Committee by the National Secretary.
