The Director-General of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Campaign Council for the forthcoming Osun State governorship election, Oluwole Oke, has vowed that the Accord will not secure victory in any ward in Ijesa North federal constituency (Oriade and Obokun local government areas) during the August 15, 2026 poll.

Oke made the declaration during a media chat with the Osun Online Publishers Association, OOPA, on Tuesday, where he spoke on the political outlook ahead of the governorship election.

In his words, “Accord will not win a single ward in obokun, Oriade, take it to bank.

“We aim for the future and not for immediate gratification. APC is good at removing sitting governments and one will happen ok August 15, it is about strategy.”

The APC campaign chief maintained that the party remained strongly rooted in the two local government areas and was well positioned to record a convincing victory at the polls.

According to him, “the Accord Party stands no chance of winning any ward in either Obokun or Oriade. Voters in the areas would overwhelmingly support the APC.”

He also revealed that the Osun APC has been running issue based campaigns.

“In APC we speak to issues. This government is not doing anything for the citizens.

“Osun youths are wise, educated and reasonable people. They will vote Governor Ademola Adeleke out.”

The lawmaker also alleged that Governor Ademola Adeleke administration in the state of causing commotion in the health, education and other sectors in the state due to his limited understanding of policy.

“The current governor, Ademola Adeleke has tried his best and my opinion is that he has limitations in terms of capacity, understanding of police, finances, governance and I have come to a conclusion that his administration has caused commotion everywhere in education, health care.

“There is panic everywhere in Osun State. Adeleke has offered is nothing and has observed all our extant laws in breach.

“The state government has abandoned the education sector and disabused the revenue allocated for it,” he addded.

Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Chidi Odinkalu, has reacted to the defection of Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Kingsley Chinda, from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Odinkalu, in a post on X on Tuesday, described the development as “organized crime,” insisting that no court ruling could justify the circumstances surrounding Chinda’s move to the ruling party.

His reaction comes amid controversy surrounding the announcement by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, that Chinda had defected from the PDP to the APC.

The Speaker, during plenary on Tuesday, read a letter notifying the House of Chinda’s defection.
However, the letter was dated April 23, 2026.

The development comes after Chinda had already emerged as the APC governorship candidate in Rivers State ahead of the 2027 election.

Following the announcement of his defection, Chinda resigned his position as Minority Leader of the House.

Reacting, Odinkalu noted that Chinda was selected as the APC governorship candidate for Rivers State while he was still serving as Minority Leader on the platform of the PDP.

According to him, efforts may be made to legitimise the situation through the courts, but he maintained that the circumstances surrounding the defection could not be justified.

DAILY POST reports that Chinda is currently facing a lawsuit over allegations that his defection from the PDP to the APC did not follow due process.

The House of Representatives is expected to elect a new Minority Leader following his resignation.

He wrote: “Today, the speaker of @HouseNGR has announced the defection of my good friend, @OKChinda, from @OfficialPDPNig to @OfficialAPCNg.

“It is claimed he also now ceases to be #MinorityLeader of the House. They back-dated the letter of notification to 23 April.

“Last month, while still the Minority Leader of the House, Chinda was selected to be the candidate of the ruling @OfficialAPCNg for governorship of Rivers State in #NigeriaDecides2027.

“I am sure they have lined up their #FullyOwned judges to make this look kosher with a suitable court order. But no amount of #CourtWashing can clean this up. It is #OrganizedCrime. Period!”

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State on Tuesday expressed distress over the recent kidnapping of students and teachers in Oriire Local Government Area of the state.

Makinde noted that this is not the time to cast blames on the governor of the state or President Bola Tinubu, stressing that Nigerians should unite in the fight against insecurity.

The governor spoke during a peaceful protest led by the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade Union Congress, TUC, and the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, at the his office in Ibadan.

“This is a time of national distress. It is not the time to trade blames. It is not the time to play politics. I am personally distressed. My own father was a primary school teacher. He actually taught at Awole Dada, less than 15 kilometres away from where this incident happened. My father was there in 1959 and 1960. If something like this had happened to him, maybe I wouldn’t even have been born,” he said.

The governor insisted that the tragedy should not become a platform for political finger-pointing, stressing that the challenge of insecurity requires a united response.

“This is not the time for us to say it is the President that should have handled this, or it is the Governor, or the local government. This is a time to pull together as one,” he said.