A former All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship aspirant in Osun State, Dr Akin Ogunbiyi, has thrown his weight behind the social gathering’s marketing campaign technique forward of the 2026 basic election cycle.
Ogunbiyi spoke on Saturday in Osogbo throughout a gathering with leaders and members of his political organisation drawn from the 30 native authorities areas and the Modakeke Space Workplace.
The gathering was convened to evaluate developments from the APC governorship main election performed in December 2025 and to stipulate subsequent steps for social gathering mobilisation.
On the assembly, Ogunbiyi instructed his marketing campaign coordinators and supporters throughout federal constituencies and native authorities areas to totally combine into the marketing campaign construction of the APC governorship candidate, Bola Oyebamiji.
He urged social gathering members to simply accept the result of the governorship main and to concentrate on strengthening the APC’s prospects within the August 8, 2026 election.
In response to him, “the emergence of Oyebamiji because the social gathering’s flagbearer has addressed long-standing expectations inside Osun West Senatorial District.”
Ogunbiyi stated stakeholders from the zone had persistently advocated for a governorship candidate from Osun West, including that the event was welcomed by social gathering members within the space.
“A very powerful factor now’s for Bola Oyebamiji to develop into the elected governor of Osun State.
“If that occurs, by the grace of God, I, Akin Ogunbiyi, from Iwo Federal Constituency, with the assist of our leaders, will emerge because the senatorial candidate of the West,” he added.
Ogunbiyi acknowledged that his earlier ambition to contest the governorship had been positioned on maintain following the conclusion of the social gathering’s choice course of.
“As for my private imaginative and prescient to control the state, that has develop into secondary now that the social gathering has produced a candidate,” he stated.
He disclosed that each one aspirants who sought the APC governorship ticket had agreed to work collectively to make sure the social gathering’s success on the polls.
“Each certainly one of us resolved that we are going to work inside our varied constituencies to make sure that Bola Oyebamiji emerges as governor,” he added.
Ogunbiyi additional stated that precedence consideration can be given to the governorship election earlier than pursuing different political ambitions.
He additionally revealed that mobilisation efforts have been ongoing in Iwo Federal Constituency to safe votes for the APC.
“Voters within the three native authorities areas within the constituency are over 170,000. Progressives can rely on Iwo,” Ogunbiyi stated.
DAILY POST recollects that Ogunbiyi and 6 different aspirants have been disqualified from taking part within the APC governorship main held on December 13, 2025, over alleged irregularities of their nomination processes.
Ogunbiyi, who was the flagbearer of the Accord Social gathering throughout the 2022 governorship election, defected to the APC in Osun, describing the transfer as a pathway to the Osun West Senatorial District.
He had campaigned beneath the slogan of bringing uncared for improvement to Osun West, which many observers see as essentially the most underdeveloped zone within the state.
Bola Oyebamiji later emerged because the social gathering’s candidate by means of an affirmation course of
