2026 Guber Election: Osun PDP Condemns Oyetola’s Threatening Comments, Says Presidency, Diplomatic Community Already Notified

Osun State PDP has criticized the Blue Economy Minister, Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola for allegedly threatening to rig the 2026 governorship election in the state.

In a statement issued in Osogbo and made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by its state chairman, Chief Sunday Bisi, the party raised the alarm over the plot  to carry out electoral fraud alleging that this was  disclosed to the APC state caucus meeting by the minister last Friday while  describing the alleged comments as ‘the most brazen declaration of intent to destroy democracy and a condemnable signal to abuse state power to deny Osun people the legitimate rights to choose their leader in a democracy’.

‘The Osun State chapter of the PDP is alarmed by several media reports of some inciting statements credited to the former governor of the state, who is currently the Minister of Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola on his role in the withholding of Osun local governments allocations and the plans to thwart the will of the people in the forthcoming 2026 governorship election.

We waited for more than 48 hours with the expectations that the Minister will deny the media reports but till now, he has remained silent. We are encouraged therefore to belief that the Minister actually made those threatening remarks.

For records purpose, the minister was alleged to have told the closed- door, high level caucus meeting of the party the following:

‘I blocked Gov Adeleke from joining the APC. Otherwise, all your ambitions would have been in jeopardy.

I gave a guarantee to Mr. President that APC can win in Osun without Governor Adeleke;

We lost the 2022 election because Buhari refused to instruct INEC and the Police to work for APC;

I have secured the cooperation of the Police and INEC to ensure that APC wins the Osun 2026 Gubernatorial Election;

I have employed federal might to prevail upon the Attorney General of the Federation not to recognize the judgment of the Court of Appeal, which clearly recognized the election of the PDP chairmen and councilors.

The Attorney General is working on a loophole that will allow the withheld local government funds to be released to the court-sacked APC chairmen and Councilors.

Otherwise, the Osun State withheld funds will not be released until after the Gubernatorial Election in 2026, in order to turn the grassroots against Governor Adeleke’.

As a party, we have no issue with the minister’s position on the recent defection politics, we however challenge him to deny and clarify other statements he allegedly made at the said state caucus meeting as they pose serious danger to democratic practice, undermine the credibility of critical state institutions and constitute gross abuse of powers and violations of the constitution.

While we are of a considered view that President Bola Tinubu is not aware of the open threats to sack democracy in Osun by his cousin and the Minister of Blue economy, we call on Mr President to sanction the Minister for dragging the names of the Federal Government into disrepute’ the party said.

The statement urged Mr President to issue a counter order to the Attorney General of the Federation and make him obey the Court of Appeal judgment that ‘recognizes the duly elected PDP chairmen and councilors and release Osun state local government allocations without further delay’.

‘We are also alerting men of goodwill and the diplomatic community of the open declaration of war on the people of Osun State by a minister who is still bitter about his rejection at the poll by the good people of Osun State in 2022.

We have informed the global community of an open genocidal threat to democratic practice as Osun people will defend their votes irrespective of the threats from anti-democratic elements’ the statement added.

The statement also noted that Osun people have rejected threats and intimidation as a tool for politicking asserting that Governor Adeleke will win the 2026 guber election because he has solid support of the people as his governance records are superlative and he has God who gives and takes power-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