The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the August 15, 2026, Osun State governorship election, Bola Oyebamiji, has congratulated Governor Ademola Adeleke on his victory. Oyebamiji spoke on Saturday in Osogbo while addressing APC leaders, members and supporters on the outcome of the election and pr…

The outcome of the Osun State governorship election has opened up another round of political discourse ahead of the 2027 general elections. DAILY POST recalls that Governor Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party won the Osun governorship election after receiving 511,067 votes, while APC’s Bola Oyebamiji garnered 444,815 v…

…YUSUF OKETOLA examines the grief of families of victims of the Akinlalu, Ile-Ife, Osun State killings, who continue to search for the remains of their loved ones months after the tragedy Ten months after gunfire tore through the quiet community of Akinlalu in Ife North Local Government Area of Osun State, the families…

…is one of the most senior figures in Nigeria's ruling party. He served as Governor of Osun State from 1999 to 2003 under the Alliance for Democracy and later became a founding member of the APC, serving as its first interim national chairman from 2013.His role in uniting the opposition parties that formed the APC made…

…of harassment, thuggery, and vote buying that dogged the governorship election held in Osun State on August 15 were enough reason for the establishment of the long-desired commission. As the nation inches towards another round of elections, it appears that, 18 years on, the recommendations in the Uwais Report remain al…

Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has pledged to heal divisions in the state and pursue an inclusive administration after the recent governorship election, promising to uphold equity and fairness in the next phase of his tenure. Adeleke made the pledge in a state broadcast on Thursday to mark the 35th anniversary o…

…on domestic and international election observers to formally designate the FCT and Osun State as “early-warning locations” ahead of the 2027 general elections. The demand was contained in a statement […] The post ADC wants Osun, FCT placed under early-warning locations appeared first on Tribune Online.

…has urged voters in northern Nigeria to learn from the recent political developments in Osun State and recognise the power of their votes in determining the leadership of the country. Usman made the remarks during an interview with DCL on Wednesday, where he criticised alleged vote-buying, the deployment of security pe…

…afrobeat star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido cannot do what he did during the Osun State governorship election in Rwanda or Ethiopia. Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, said this during an interview on Symfoni TV. He was reacting to Davido’s use of social media d…

By Shina Abubakar, Osogbo Former Osun State Governor and Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola, has condemned the violence in Ikire, headquarters of Irewole Local Government Area, which reportedly claimed two lives. Oyetola called on the police and other security agencies to identify and arrest those res…

…Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, publicly criticized his boss, Davido's uncle, Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke. In the videos, Isreal DMW exposed the poorly tarred state of Benin City's popular Ring Road, as well as the deteriorating road networks within the high-brow Government Reserved Area (GRA). The move i…

The Osun State Government has received the newly posted Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Zungura, with Governor Ademola Adeleke demanding reforms in the state police command and the release of persons he described as political detainees. Zungura, who assumed duty in Osun on Monday, paid a courtesy visit to Adeleke along…

…State University; European University of Nigeria, Abuja; Oduduwa University, Ipetu-Modu, Osun State; and Peaceland University, Enugu. The Council, however, declined to grant approval to Maranatha University, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, to commence a Law programme, citing “numerous deficiencies” identified during its veri…

…INEC's returning officer declared Accord candidate Ademola Adeleke the winner of the Osun State governorship election Adeleke polled 511,067 votes against APC's Bola Oyebamiji, who scored 444,815 votes in the keenly contested poll.Nigerians took to social media to share strong reactions to the result, with many linking…

…bedevilling liberal democracy. Okechukwu, who was reacting to the outcome of the Osun State governorship election, said the political consequences of banditry were tragically manifested in the loss of innocent lives in the build-up to the election. In a statement he signed, Okechukwu said some of the issues that demons…

…Congress, ADC, Dele Momodu, has said he did not support Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State for pecuniary gains but for his superlative performance. In a statement he posted on X, the former presidential candidate said Adeleke has turned the ancient town of his birth, Ile Ife, into a modern city. Recounting history,…

Members of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State have been charged to turn the party’s loss in the governorship election into victory in the 2027 general elections. This was contained in a statement signed and made available in Osogbo on Sunday by a chieftain of the party, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye. The ex-Osun Stat…

The August 15 governorship election in Osun State has been won and lost, but stakeholders have continued to draw lessons for the 2027 elections from the contest that pitched Governor Ademola Adeleke of Accord against Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In this report, PHILIP IBITOYE examines the poss…

…PHILIP IBITOYE, speaks on CISLAC’s takeaways from the August 15 governorship election in Osun State and the lessons Nigerians can learn from it against the 2027 general election. WITHh the Osun election in the rearview, what are the things […] The post INEC must know that voters are fully attentive to what they do in 2…

…on competing policies and programmes. For instance, last week’s governorship election in Osun State wasn’t an exception, as no fewer than 40 people were reportedly killed in the pre-election period. This is why, in various conversations with Sunday Vanguard, key stakeholders in the electoral process, including Civil So…

…INEC, Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN, has described the Commission’s conduct of the Osun State governorship election as a benchmark in electoral administration. He also announced that a nationwide mock accreditation exercise would be conducted in November 2026 to assess the Commission’s preparedness for the 2027 General Ele…

…Oyetunji, popularly known as Ero-Arike, over her involvement in the recently concluded Osun State governorship election. In a video circulating on social media, a group of women holding containers of the balm could be seen singing and pleading with members of the public not to allow the political controversy surroundin…

…with Muideen Olaniyi, he spoke extensively on the August 15 Governorship Election in Osun State, lessons from its outcomes and the implications for the 2027 general elections. Excerpts: Governor Ademola Adeleke has just won re-election in Osun. […] The post We are happy Osun people are saying Gov Adeleke is not in a po…

…should not be remembered simply as the election that returned Ademola Adeleke to the Osun State Government House. It should be remembered as an election in which INEC itself was being tested. Not tested on whether it could produce a winner. That is the easy part. The harder test was whether it could produce enough conf…

…Adeleke-led Accord party deployed over N100bn in the August 15 governorship election in Osun State, Saturday PUNCH can report. The funds were channelled into campaign materials, vote buying, payments of agents, canvassers, security personnel and electoral officers in the 3,763 polling units and 332 wards of the state.…