His course to the nomination ran by route of Lagos ahead of it reached Ogun. Adeola began in the House of Representatives representing Alimosho, then crossed into the Senate representing Ogun West, where he now chairs the Appropriations Committee, one of the Nationwide Assembly’s most consequential seats.
Two months later, Tinubu used his birthday statement to Adeola to name him a dependable political ally.
In June, Governor Dapo Abiodun personally accompanied Adeola and former governor Olusegun Osoba to Abuja, presenting the candidate and his running mate to President Bola Tinubu.
Adeola has openly called both Tinubu and Osoba mentors, and Abiodun a role model, language that positions his campaign as continuity rather than disruption.
Osoba’s presence adds an older layer of legitimacy.
Ogun West has existed seeing that the status was created in 1976 and has never produced a governor. That lone point sits underneath everything happening around Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, the APC’s consensus governorship candidate for 2027, stronger established by his nickname, Yayi.
The APC’s 2027 campaign council brings together Abiodun, Osoba, and former governors Gbenga Daniel and Ibikunle Amosun, politicians whose rivalries have influenced Ogun’s politics for two decades. Assembling them under one banner is itself a political achievement, and potentially a fragile one.
He is finishing his second term, and Ogun’s political class reads his backing of Adeola as an bid to influence who inherits the machinery he built, rather than leave that inquiry to possibility.
It is an enormous term, for sure, coming from a sitting president concerning a governorship candidate in another man’s condition. As some observers have noted, it is a people gesture Tinubu did not have to produce at all.Abiodun’s own stake is harder to miss.
Slogans aside, the arithmetic behind “tested and trusted” is straightforward. Whether that log survives connect including together with Ogun’s grassroots is a inquiry the endorsements alone cannot reply.
Adeola has held office at three legislative levels across two states.
Source: The Political Battle Testing Olamilekan Adeola’s Influence in Ogun
