By Ismail Azeez
Ahead of the Osun 2026 Governorship Campaign Committee,Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Osun gubernatorial campaign council, Hon. Oluwole Oke, has claimed that Governor Ademola Adeleke is already packing his bags out of the Government House and he is no longer attending parties to dance, and spending most of his time in Lagos because he knows he cannot win.
This is as the campaign DG also boasted that the Governor will become the third incumbent governor he has helped unseat.
Oke, a five-term member of the House of Representatives representing the Oriade/Obokun Federal Constituency, made the assertion on Tuesday during a media chat at the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Office in Osogbo, ahead of the August 15 governorship election.
“We are very good at removing sitting governors. I have participated in unseating two governors in this state, and the third will be in the August 15 governorship election,” Oke stated.
The campaign DG claimed that Governor Adeleke’s administration has performed poorly in terms of service delivery and value addition, adding that the people of Osun have lost confidence in the government, particularly in the education sector.
He further alleged that Adeleke has reduced his public appearances and social engagements, spending more time in Lagos because he is aware of the political reality awaiting him at the polls.
“It is about strategy, engagement, and telling the people of Osun that they deserve better. It is about convincing them that the incumbent government has not been fair to them. They have failed and squandered the people’s resources,” Oke said.
Highlighting specific failures, Oke pointed to the state of public schools and rural infrastructure, noting that farmers can no longer confidently send their children to public schools because they have lost faith in government institutions.
He also lamented the lack of clean water, stating that people currently resort to streams contaminated with disease-causing organisms for drinking water.
He promised that the APC will put an end to that by developing surface water resources, refurbishing dams, and resetting the water infrastructure to provide quality, potable drinking water.
According to Oke, every citizen in Osun is practically a government unto themselves because they provide their own water, generate their own electricity, patronise private hospitals, and send their children to private schools, yet they are still required to pay taxes. He questioned the benefit of the government to its citizens under such circumstances.
Oke emphasized that the APC’s campaign remains issue-based, critiquing the quality of recent infrastructure projects under the current administration.
He noted that the party addresses matters of governance rather than speaking carelessly, establishing that the current government is not doing enough for the people.
Regarding roads, he argued that many of those constructed are poorly executed, citing the Ota-Ile–Ilare–Esa-Odo road as an example where parts are washed away whenever it rains. On the basis of service delivery and value addition, he scored the government zero.
He concluded by predicting a definitive exit for the governor, assuring the public that voters will oust the administration on the 15th of August, 2026.