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Osun guber poll: Civic group warns against insecurity, electoral violence
A civic advocacy group, The Osun Masterminds, TOM, has raised concerns over worsening insecurity in Nigeria and rising political tension ahead of the August 15, 2026 governorship election in Osun State.
The group made its position known during its May 2026 State of the State address delivered at a press conference by its Executive Director, Wasiu Oyedokun-Alli.
Addressing journalists, Oyedokun-Alli described the security situation in the country as deeply troubling, citing the recent kidnapping of 46 schoolchildren in neighbouring Oyo State as evidence of a collapse in intelligence and territorial policing.
He said the abduction of the pupils represented a dangerous development capable of threatening the future of the country if urgent measures were not taken.
“The security architecture of the country has fractured to a deeply terrifying degree,” he said.
Oyedokun-Alli added that attacks on schools and farming communities were worsening concerns over food security and public safety across the country.
“Survival in Nigeria has indeed become an extreme sport, but when educational institutions become hunting grounds for bandits and terrorists, the future of the nation itself is being held for ransom,” he stated.
The group called on the Federal Government to immediately deploy security assets to secure the unconditional release of the abducted schoolchildren.
It warned against a repeat of prolonged school abductions previously experienced in parts of the country.
The group also urged governors in the South-West region, particularly the Osun State Government, to strengthen inter-state collaboration, intelligence sharing and border security to prevent criminal activities within the zone.
“We call on the governments of the South-West states, particularly our own Osun State government, to actively collaborate, fortify border security, and strengthen intelligence sharing cooperation,” Oyedokun-Alli said.
Speaking on political developments in Osun State, the organisation expressed concern over the rising political intolerance and inflammatory rhetoric ahead of the governorship election scheduled for August 15.
The group said there had been “an increase in cyberbullying, mutual accusations, character assassination and threats among supporters of opposing political parties in the state.”
Oyedokun-Alli warned political actors against turning democratic competition into violence, noting that ordinary residents were often the victims of political unrest.
“With the election less than three months away, we must remind our politicians that opposition politics is an arena for competing development ideas, not a battleground for warfare,” he said.
The organisation called on political parties to caution their supporters and embrace issue-based campaigns, while urging security agencies in Osun State to remain non-partisan and swiftly address any attempt to incite electoral violence or disrupt public peace.
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The African Democratic Congress, ADC, vice presidential candidate, Rotimi Amaechi, has fired back at the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, who said Atiku Abubakar picked him as running mate because of money.
Featuring in an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television on Tuesday, Amaechi said he does not respond to his subordinate.
Wike during a media parley with selected journalists on Tuesday had said that Amaechi does not have political value in Rivers state.
Reacting, Amaechi said, “I don’t respond to my subordinate. Wike never hired me. By the time I finish mourning and go into campaign, anybody that insults me, I will insult him back.”
It will be recalled that Amaechi was a presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, but lost out to Atiku Abubakar in the party’s primaries.
Atiku later approached Amaechi after the exercise and later, the ADC announced Amaechi as his running mate ahead of the 2027 general elections.
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The vice presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Rotimi Amaechi, says they are ready to do anything president Bola Tinubu wants them to do at the field
Amaechi made this statement on Tuesday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today ahead of the 2027 general elections.
He said: “Let the president continue to tell the public that he would win the election at all cost until we get to the field.
“Whatever the president wants us to do at the field, we will do it. I’m not worried about what he wants to do. We will meet at the field.
“Nigeria has to be rescued. What the president and his men are doing is insulting my faith.”
“Recall that Amaechi contested the All Progressives Congress, APC, primary election with Tinubu in 2022 and lost.
He later defected to the ADC ahead of the 2027 polls and is paired with former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as his running mate to fly the party’s flag.
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2027: Tinubu should’ve assured Nigerians APC’ll slug it out with ADC, PDP, others – Amaechi
The presidential running mate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Rotimi Amaechi, has said President Bola Tinubu should have reassured Nigerians that his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, will slug it out with the ADC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and other opposition in the 2027 election.
Amaechi said Tinubu should have assured Nigerians that the APC will slug it out with the ADC, PDP, and other political parties on an even field during the 2027 elections.
He spoke while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today, where he tackled Tinubu over his comment during his meeting with the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria.
During the meeting, Tinubu had declared that all is fair in politics.
Faulting Tinubu’s comment, Amaechi wondered that if thugs kill people during election, should that be considered as being fair.
He said: “Look at the president’s statement that all is fair in politics, if a thug takes a gun and shoots me where I’m voting, it’s fair?
“I just listened to him now, you know that I read literature, the moment a writer concludes his writing, any other comment he makes is interpretation, he has the right to interprete his books; I have the right to interprete his book.
“So when the president has said to you all is fair in politics, when the Catholic Church is crying about the possibility of having an election that may not be fair, all the president needs to do is to reassure the country that APC, PDP, and ADC will slug it out on an even field, that it will be a free and fair election, let the best team wins.”
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