2026 Guber Election: Osun APC Calls Accord Party Campaign Kickoff ‘Valedictory Meeting’, Says Gov Adeleke’s Approval Rating At All-time Low

The scanty attendance at the Accord Party campaign kickoff in Osogbo on Tuesday is an indication that the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Governor Ademola Adeleke’s approval rating is at all-time low, Osun State APC, has submitted.

The party has also advised those who are opportunistically using the current situation the governor has found himself  to ‘cash out’ by promising phony support to have a rethink.

‘With the high level of propaganda that preceded the campaign kickoff through electronic, print and social media, one would have thought that Governor Adeleke will literarily shut down the state capital yesterday. But alas! the reverse was the case!

The poor attendance at Adeleke’s re-election campaign launch was an indication that he is far from being tagged with the toga of popularity as the few members of the derecognized Accord Party were attracted to the event with the mobilization fund that was promised them.

It was learned that the mobilization fund turned to a source of embarrassment to the leadership of the deregistered party in the state as members who had made it to the event resisted attempts to shortchange them which led to physical fight at some spots in the Old Garage area of Osogbo, close to the venue of the event.

It will be recalled that the Federal High Court, Abuja gave a landmark judgement on Monday, ordering the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) to derecognize the Accord Party and four other political parties for failing to fulfill some fundamental constitutional provisions.

Things have not been the same with Governor Adeleke since Monday as his actions and inactions are evident that he is facing the most difficult political challenge of his life, running from pillar to post without any instant solution in sight.

The governor is desperate for re-election at all cost and those who are exploiting the situation to milk him dry should know that their deceitful game has an expiring date which is fast knocking with its apogee on the reckoning day which is the 15th of August, 2026.

One of the lowpoints of the event was when some of the leaders of the deadwood purchased decampees took time to address the scanty crowd and the governor himself had to instruct the obviously disinterested rented crowd to hail the decampees who have little or no political value in their respective domains’ the party submitted in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by its spokesman, Mogaji Kola Olabisi on Wednesday.

Osun State APC has also accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of being desperate to win re-election while asserting that this will not however make him earn a second term and he should rather be preparing his hand over notes.

‘We want to impress it on the desperate Governor Adeleke that it is not by force to serve the people as what was witnessed at the launch of his re-election campaign was an indication that the good people of the state have unanimously rejected him as his best in the past three years is not desirable for the transformation of the state.

Another low point of the event was when Governor Adeleke kept on assuring the rented crowd with an air of finality that he is cocksure that the name of his deregistered party would be on the ballot paper as if he would sit in judgement over the matter.

The crowd that was witnessed at the re-election campaign launch was not even up to what was witnessed in Ile-Ife nine days ago when the Ife Federal Constituency chapter of the opposition APC embarked on a walk-to-win exercise in support of the party’s governorship candidate.

Based on the foregoing, it will not be out of tune to observe and conclude that it was a valedictory meeting that Governor Adeleke and his political co-travellers held in the state capital yesterday.

It is our humble advice that Governor Adeleke should start preparing his handover notes as unfolding events since the stage collapse incident in the ancient town of Ijebu-Jesa, Oriade Local Government Council, Osun State, last week, are pointing to his imminent electoral loss in the upcoming guber election.

Apart from the fact that the political party under which the governor is seeking re-election has been deregistered without any definite assurance of bringing it back to life, the deregistered Accord Party in Osun State in particular and Nigeria in general is relatively unknown and verifiably unpopular.

The temporary respite that however came to the camp of the deregistered Accord Party and the four others is that the Court of Appeal on Tuesday ordered a halt to the enforcement of the court ruling directing INEC to deregister the affected political parties’ the statement added-Team@orientactualmags.com  Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08035023079,  08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you