•Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State
Osun State governor, Ademola Adeleke yesterday boasted that nobody could defeat him in the August 8, 2026 governorship election.
He said he was not afraid of any federal might, reports The Nation.
Speaking with reporters after facing Osun State PDP Governorship Screening Committee in Abuja, the governor said he was confident that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu would not do anything that would “mess up his administration.”
He said if he could defeat an incumbent governor to claim the seat, he was more than confident that the 2026 election would be a walk over, adding: “We will dance and work.”
Governor Adeleke said: “First of all, we don’t have any internal wrangling in Osun State PDP. When you look around, I can tell you that the PDP in Osun is number one. We are one family and everything is going on well. So, there’s no internal wrangling in PDP.
“I am confident of winning the election because I have performed very well. You know, I mean, I introduced what they call fact-checking. You can go back and fact-check in Osun and see what is going on there. We are in the era of technology. You can just Google it and check it out, you will know that we are doing very well in Osun.
“I am so confident that I am going to win. I defeated an incumbent and I am the governor. Within two years, it’s unprecedented what we have achieved. Man, I’m so confident that nobody can beat us there.”
Asked what he planned to do for the people of the state, the governor said: “This time, more goodies all the way, more goodies all the way throughout Osun State. We’ll be dancing, and we’ll be working.”
Chairman, Osun State PDP Governorship Screening Committee, Adebayo Adepoju, said the committee had gone through the documents of the governor and was confident that the coast was clear for him to proceed with the election.
