From Timothy Agbor, Osogbo
Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed anger over a campaign billboard bearing the pictures of both President Bola Tinubu and Governor Ademola Adeleke.
Tinubu is the national leader of the APC, a major opposition party in Osun State, while Adeleke is of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.
Both Tinubu and Adeleke are reportedly seeking re-election in 2027 and 2026, respectively. But the leadership of the APC in the state described the pairing up of the pictures of Tinubu with that of Adeleke on a billboard conspicuously displayed at Ward 12 in Iwo Local Council of the state as fraudulent.
Osun’s APC Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, in a statement, yesterday, noted that the billboard bearing the inscription of ‘Continuity of Progress’ sponsored by “a faceless political body scripted as ‘Osun Leaders of Thought,’ was sighted early yesterday which probably might have been erected in the early hours of Wednesday.”
According to Olabisi, “this is the absurd playing of dirty politics taken too far as there could not be any acceptable reason for the sponsorship of the fraudulent billboard other than a flagrant display of irreverent attitude orchestrated by political Jews with a mission to compare the sky with the ground.
“We want to tell the whole world that we are vehemently condemning and dissociating our party from the nose and eyesore, which exemplified political heresy in the heartland of the core progressive politics in the affected part of the state.”
Meanwhile, in a reaction, Adeleke’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, said that the APC is battling with an integrity crisis even at the Presidency, hence, afraid of the governor’s rising popularity.
Olawale, in a statement, said the APC’s frustration exposed its weakness within the Presidency and frustrations about increasing breakthroughs of the Adeleke administration.
“The opposition is by now scrambling on what to say to another breakthrough recorded by the governor.
“The opposition is confused about the groundswell of support for Adeleke across party lines and local and national audience. The public at home and abroad are impressed by the huge delivery of the administration across sectors. Interestingly, the appraisal of performance is coming from federal and non-governmental bodies,” the statement posited.
