Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state of deliberately misinterpreting the statement credited to the APC national chairman, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, that the party would extend its influence ahead of the 2027 general elections, particularly targeting Oyo and Osun states to strengthen support for President Bola Tinubu.
APC, in a statement issued by the director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, said PDP was unnecessarily whipping up sentiment in order to misinform and misinterpret the political wise counseling of the APC national chairman.
Recall that Ganduje was reported to have said at a stakeholders’ meeting on the forthcoming Ondo State governorship election in Akure, last weekend said that APC will capture the South-West states to strengthen support for President Bola Tinubu in his geo-political zone.
Consequently, the Osun State chairman of PDP, Sunday Bisi in a statement made available to newsmen in Osogbo accused the national chairman of the APC of threatening fire and brimstone in the South-West and a careless plot to plunge the geo-political zone into avoidable political turmoil.
The PDP state chairman went further to warn Alhaji Ganduje *’to be careful not to compound the situation by attempting barefaced election rigging, especially in the Southwest, as doing so will be nothing but stepping on a very dangerous cobra’s tail’.*
Reacting, the Osun APC said it is a pity that the leadership of the PDP in Osun could go to the extent of exhibiting its crass ignorance of lack of the knowledge that the meaning of any word spoken at any particular point in time is not total and that it is disheartening that a bunch of political actors could give the meaning of the words spoken to suit their ulterior purpose of orchestrated misinformation.
“For how long do we need to spoon-feed the ever loquacious Osun State PDP chairman that the dictionary meaning of *’to capture’* could mean *’to gain or win especially through effort’* or *’to take according to the rules of a game’* or *’to secure?’*
“If the intention of Sunday Bisi is not ulterior on the issue at stake, it is not too much for him to know that what the verifiable democratic National Chairman of APC was saying was that all legitimate efforts would be deployed by his party to ensure the APC victory in the forthcoming Osun State general elections.
“There is no iota of need for Sunday Bisi and his cohorts to be jittery to the extent of pissing inside their trousers over Alhaji Ganduje’s goodwill message for his party that victory would be achieved by the opposition party in both Osun and Oyo states”.
Osun APC declared that the copious threats issued out by the Osun State PDP chairman were not necessary as there is nothing to warrant same adding that if Ganduje could concede the defeat of his party during the last governorship election in Kano State as a democrat, who then is Governor Ademola Adeleke not to do same if he is defeated come 2026.
