The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has welcomed the state Governor Ademola Adeleke to the August 8 2026 governorship contest, following his purported screening by the national body of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), warning him to begin to catalogue his handover note as no magic wand can save him from the impending defeat at the poll next year given his abysmal performance in office.

Trending photos and videos of Governor Adeleke depicted his arrival at the PDP National Secretariat in Abuja as well as filling, with the help of Mr Bunmi Jenyo, the state commissioner for commerce, of documents that looked like the screening forms.

Recall that Adeleke had struggled multiple times in the last five months to defect to the All Progressives Congress, fearing that his chances of winning his re-election were slim, but was turned down by the leadership and members of the party, arguing that he is an unmarketable governor who would court hatred and electoral misfortune for APC on account of his government's poor policy formulation and implementation, lack of transparency, endemic corruption, nepotism and cronyism.

The APC accused Adeleke of running a shallow and mediocre government with only focus on himself and his unproductive members of his cabinet having wasted over N60 billion on the Governor's Office in 35 months, without recruiting a single teacher into our schools even though no fewer than 32,000 struggling citizens were duped of their hard-earned money under a pretext of wanting to recruit them as school teachers.

Adeleke was equally accused of failing to fund education, a development which has forced management of virtually all the tertiary institutions in the state to install a cut-throat and arbitrary fee regime to shore up the meagre resources available to them.