30 June, 2025
IfeOluwa Felicia
IBADAN – The minister for power Chief Adebayo Adelabu has disproved insinuations that President Bola Tinubu will impose him as 2027 APC governorship candidate of the party in Oyo state.
He said Oyo APC party would conduct primary election which gives room for competition. He also said President Tinubu believes in competition than imposing, a great politician like him managing 36 States and federal capital territory would not be interested in governorship candidate of a state.
Adelabu made those statement while hosting APC executives, ward chairmen and leaders in Ibadan South East Local Government at his Iyaganku residence.
He said “I’m ready to engage in healthy competition that will not lead to hatred and bad blood so that at the end of the day, after primary elections when a winner would have emerged, there will be a good platform for reconciliation and other aspirants that lost would not lose everything, but there will be a way of compensation with nominations and appointments and no one goes home without having anything.”
He said even if the president has personal interest for a particular candidate, he can come to the aspirant’s state to cast a vote.”The best advice President Tinubu will give me is to go back to my state, work and win people to my side, which I have started and it will be obvious to everybody that whoever eventually gets the governorship ticket actually worked for it, and I have started the work now” he stated.
