Osun Guber: Reps bicker over alleged lobbying of Adeleke
Two members of the House of Representatives of Osun State, Bamidele Salam and Oluwole Oke are bickering over claim of leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) lobbying Governor Ademola Adeleke to the party in Osun State.
The Nation recalls that APC had said Adeleke made a move to dump the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and join the APC ahead of 2026 election, but the plan was truncated.
However, Salam, representing Ede South, North, Egbedore and Ejigbo Federal Constituency, on his verified Facebook page denied the claim that Adeleke had made move to join APC.
He said: “Governor Adeleke has never expressed any intention to move to the APC rather it is the top leaders of the party asking him to come and he has consistently told them no.”
Meanwhile, Oke, representing Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency, who recently dumped PDP for APC, queried that “how can APC Leaders at the centre be alleged to be begging Governor Adeleke to join Apc ? That’s lies from the pit of hell , Haba !”
He continued: “If I were Governor Adeleke , I will summon courage and fight the ruling Government like Governor Aregbesola did in 2014 and face the consequences in 2026 . It’s either I win or lose . Gov Adeleke after all mustn’t come back in 2026. He has made his name as a Governor of Osun State.”
Earlier, APC in a statement slammed Salam noting that the lawmaker is not being alive to contemporary happenings in his party, saying: “We may excuse the ignorance of Salam as the position he is occupying necessitates him to, at least, voice out a statement to show his continuous allegiance to the country home where rests the absolute authority for his reelection aspiration in the next dispensation.
“How on earth would the leadership of the thriving APC which is in the total control of the administration of all the local government council areas in the state and had successfully harvested all the leading lights in the PDP be begging the head of such rudderless government to join our party? It doesn’t add up.
“The crux of the matter is that the perplexed and visibly confounded Adeleke has been running helter-skelter from Osogbo to Abuja to Lagos to London to America to Canada to Dubai to France with a view to defecting into our party without luck.”
