The National Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ajibola Basiru, has said that the party guber candidate for Osun State in 2026 election may emerge through a consensus arrangement by the leaders of the party.
According to NNL report, he said the party may not rule the arrangement out considering the antecedents in Ondo and Edo States where several aspirants vied for the party ticket but was resolved through a consensus arrangement.
Speaking at the launch of grassroots mobilisers for APC across the state under the auspices of Alubarika Movement, held on Sunday noted that APC is united and strong in Osun State which will sack Governor Ademola Adeleke from government in 2026.
He expressed confidence that primary election of APC will not result to crisis within the party ahead 2026 election.
He said: “The primary election will be free and fair but I can assure you that the candidate may emerge from consensus arrangements by leadership of the party.
“APC can not be divided. Our party is a party of leadership and as I said, everybody that is a member of the party has legitimate desire to ensure that we have a candidate that will be able to deliver and defeat the PDP.
“In Ondo state for instance, there were 16 aspirants and we were able to get the right candidate that was able to deliver for the party. The same thing in Edo, we have more than 16 there and we resolved the matter. Everybody has the right to aspire to be leadership in the party.”
He scored the administration of Ademola Adeleke very low noting that, “PDP in Osun has failed in the area of education, health, empowerment. Will it not suprise you that the budget of the governor’s house is far more than the budget of agriculture, education and health combined.”
“It is a government that has no direction. Even the so called flyover they are doing, it’s being done without any project management sense and it shows lack of coordination, lack of leadership and lack of focus of the government.”
Commenting about rifts within Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he said “Ambition of a few individuals is what is causing the rift within the opposition party and it is to the joy of us as a ruling party if they don’t get their house together. It is not our job to help them put their house in order.”
