{"id":146469,"date":"2025-01-16T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2026-apc-osun-west-demands-bisi-akandes-support-for-guber-ticket"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:22:16","slug":"2026-apc-osun-west-demands-bisi-akandes-support-for-guber-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2026-apc-osun-west-demands-bisi-akandes-support-for-guber-ticket","title":{"rendered":"2026: APC Osun West demands Bisi Akande\u2019s support for guber ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun West Senatorial District have called on a former state and pioneer National Chairman of the party, Adebisi Akande to throw his weight behind the calls for zoning the guber ticket to the district.<\/p>\n

The call by the leaders was contained in a congratulatory message issued on Wednesday to mark the 86th birthday of Akande.<\/p>\n

The call is coming amid rising calls for the Osun State chapter of the APC led by the former governor and current Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola to zone the party\u2019s ticket to Osun West for the 2026 guber election.<\/p>\n

Though most of the groups coming out publicly to clamour for a shift to the district also identifed Oyetola as having the Right of First Refusal, they added that zoning the guber ticket to the district was a matter of fairness since the zone has not produced any guber candidate for the party since the return to democratic rule in 1999.<\/p>\n

The Osun West APC leadership subsequently demanded the backing of the former state governor for the district to realise its ambition of producing the APC flag-bearer, if the immediate past governor, Adegboyega Oyetola would not be re-contesting in 2026.<\/p>\n

They added that their plea on the elder statesman was because of his uncontested attributes and unbiased sense of fairness and equity.<\/p>\n

The West Senatorial, in a statement signed by its Chairman, Akintola Omolaoye, obtained in Osogbo, likened Akande\u2019s political experience to \u201ca pool of wisdom, where many desirous and inquisitive politicians have been drawing over the years especially in an exponential manner since 1999.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement reads in part, \u201cThe leadership of APC, OSUN WEST SENATORIAL DISTRICT, is placing its heartfelt congratulations as His Excellency, Chief \u2018Bisi AKANDE clocks and marks his glorious 86th year on the land of the living on the 16th day of January 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe District appreciates God\u2019s goodness and favour for sparing him for us in APC as a political fold and Nigeria as a nation from whose pool of wisdom, many desirous and inquisitive politicians have been drawing over the years especially in an exponential manner since 1999.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe District\u2019s leadership has unwavering and absolute confidence in your unbiased senses of fairness, justice, equity, spread, inclusivity and promotion of a political sense of belonging upon which democratic governance sustainability wholesomely rested.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the above position, our district strongly hopes that if \u2018the RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL is let loose on 2026\u2019, your Excellency shall be magnanimous to consider the District, as a righteous deed of birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n

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