The Osun State chapter of the Accord Party has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of panic and desperation ahead of the 2026 governorship election, insisting that the party has lost the confidence of the people of the state.
In a press statement issued on Sunday, Accord described a recent statement by the APC as a sign of “frustration” and “political collapse,” alleging that the opposition party is unsettled by what it called the steady recovery of Osun State under Governor Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke.
The statement, signed by the Osun State Chairman of Accord, Pastor Victor Babalola Akande, said the APC’s reaction reflects its inability to come to terms with what the party described as visible progress recorded by the current administration within three years.
According to Accord, the Adeleke-led government has reversed what it termed years of decline, particularly in infrastructure, workers’ welfare, healthcare delivery and security.
The statement reads further;
The Osun State chapter of the Accord has taken due notice of the venom-spewing, intellectually bankrupt and historically dishonest tirade issued by the All Progressives Congress (APC) through its visibly distressed chairman, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal. We state without hesitation that what the public witnessed was not a press statement but a public psychological breakdown triggered by the unstoppable collapse and rejection of the APC project in Osun State.
The truth is simple and unavoidable, APC is panicking. The party of looters, whose years in office were defined by hunger, deceit and organised economic violence against workers and citizens, is watching helplessly as Osun steadily recovers under Governor Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke.
The rage, the lies and the incoherent attacks are therefore inevitable symptoms of frustration, not strength.
Even while watching Governor Adeleke’s administration from afar, the Accord in Osun State has been genuinely astonished by the visible turnaround in Osun State within just three years, a sharp contrast to the APC years which are today best remembered as better-forgotten seasons of malfeasance and administrative wickedness.
Roads deliberately abandoned under the sadists ambassador Gboyega Oyetola led APC government of chaos and immaturity, are now being fixed across the state; public infrastructure is no longer a mirage; and governance has returned to the people rather than being hoarded by a predatory clique.
Unlike the APC era where Osun workers were wickedly subjected to the intermittent and dehumanising payment of half salaries, Governor Adeleke has prioritised workers’ welfare, restored consistency in salary payments, addressed arrears and brought back dignity to labour. It is the height of cowardice and callousness for the Gboyega Oyetola faction of the APC, the very architects of this half-salary disaster, to now dodge responsibility, deny history and pretend innocence. Osun workers know their tormentors, and history will not forget.
In the health sector, facilities once left to rot under APC indifference have witnessed upgrades, improved service delivery and renewed government attention, which has culminated in the back to back prized accolades from sane global institutions.
On security, the difference is stark and instructive. Governor Adeleke’s administration has strengthened collaboration and logistical support for statutory security agencies, leading to improved calm and stability across the state. This stands in sharp contrast to the APC years of institutionalised thuggery, state-sponsored street violence and the deployment of “state boys” as instruments of fear, electoral terrorism and lawlessness.
Against this backdrop of recovery and responsible governance, it takes only political baboons and intellectual fraudsters to imagine that Osun people will ever again submit themselves to the APC, a party whose record qualifies it for political quarantine, not re-election.
That any APC element can still summon the audacity to present himself for election in Osun State today is merely one of the tragic hazards of democracy. In more sane and morally stringent climes, such a party, having inflicted immeasurable pain, poverty and regression, would have been formally excommunicated from political consideration.
Indeed, but for Nigeria’s forgiving and easily manipulated political environment, the APC in Osun State should by now have been banished and ceremonially buried in the evil forest where wicked political souls rightly belong. Their desperation today is only proof that they understand the verdict ahead.
Let it therefore be stated without ambiguity,
Osun will not relapse!
The people will not return to their abusers.
2026 will permanently seal the political burial of APC in Osun State.
No amount of sponsored hysteria, media tantrums or revisionist lies can save a party already rejected by history and abandoned by the people.
