APC candidate Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji pledges a fair 2026 Osun election, calling on youths to lead grassroots mobilisation
Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the 2026 Osun State governorship election, has pledged that the party will resist any form of rigging during the polls scheduled for 8 August 2026.
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Speaking at the APC state secretariat in Ogo-Oluwa, Osogbo, Oyebamiji alleged that the party was unfairly excluded from power in the 2022 governorship election and vowed that APC would reclaim governance in 2026.
Addressing members of the party’s youth arm, Oyebamiji urged door-to-door mobilisation, stating, “I want to assure you that 2026 will not be like 2022 when we were rigged out of office. We should work hard. For this forthcoming election, all governments across the world will stand with us. Many people who are seeing what President Tinubu is doing are willing to join the cause. We must deliver, you must work; this government will be for the youths, and we are going to programme a system that will reward the youths.”
Oyebamiji admonished the youths not to be complacent, saying, “We are eager to take over but we have yet to work towards it. God has given us a goal post and set us up to play a penalty on an empty net; despite this, we should work assiduously. We must go back to start doing house-to-house, door-to-door awareness about the forthcoming poll. Our opponents have started lying to the Osun people, you must break these lies.”
He also commended President Bola Tinubu, Minister for Marine and Blue Economy Adegboyega Oyetola, and APC’s pioneer National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, for maintaining the party’s viability despite being out of government since 2022.
Earlier, State APC Youth Leader Olagoke Akinwemimo described Oyebamiji’s nomination as “perfect,” asserting that it had disrupted opposition expectations of division within the party.
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He further praised the youth structure’s resilience, organisation, and continued activism since the 2022 elections, reinforcing their role in reclaiming the mandate.
