The Osun state Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, Thursday, predicted victory for his party ahead of the 2026 gubernatorial election in the state, saying “PDP is still popular in Osun. We are also delivering the dividends of democracy and we are poise to win again.”
The governor, who hinged his predictions on the party’s popularity and absence of internal wrangling, insisted that the party remains one family in Osun.
He stated this in Abuja while fielding questions from newsmen after undergoing screening at the party’s Legacy House.
The governor, who challenged pressmen to fact check his remarkable achievements as governor reminded that in the technology era, one can just Google it and check it out, to know whether as governor he was doing very well in Osun or not.
He said: “I’m so confident I’m going to win. If I can defeat an incumbent, and now that I’m the governor, within two years, it’s unprecedented what we have achieved in less than two years. I’m so confident that nobody can beat us there.”
On whether or not he was scared of the opposition, All Progressives Congress (APC) readiness to wrest power from PDP in the state, Adeleke added: ” I’m not! How can I be scared? I’m too popular! Anywhere I go, don’t you love me? I love you! Hey, everybody say Imole!.
“Imole! What are you talking about? Anywhere I go, throughout this country, even in the APC, I have some friends in the APC and in other parties. Just take APC as a case study: anytime they’re having a party or an event, I’ll go there, I’ll take over, they all love me.
“So, I mean, you see, if you’re not performing, that’s when you’ll be scared. When you have your people behind you, you don’t have to fear,”
While also speaking after the screening, Honourable Adebayo Adepoju, the Chairman, Osun State PDP gubernatorial screening committee said having gone through his forms, his nomination forms, they noticed that the governor was nominated by very highly placed people as well as ordinary people in the Osun community.
“This just shows that he is very well accepted all around the party. We went through other credentials besides academic ones that he had submitted, and everything was very, very satisfactory to us. We are pleased with what we have seen.
“When he came in, we asked him a few questions, and all his answers matched what he had submitted. So, we are very, very happy about what he has been able to do so far in the State of Osun. At the end of the day, he passed the screening,” Adepoju said.
