Osun APC campaign committee faces officials’ rejection

Osun State’s All Progressives Congress has announced a campaign committee led by Bola Oyebamiji to support President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election bid, prompting some party officials to reject the committee’s composition and call for a review. State chairman Tajudeen Lawal announced the structure, with Oyebamiji as director-general and Lawal as deputy. The party said the campaign effort would also mobilise support for APC candidates contesting National and State Assembly seats. A separate account of the announcement describes a 110-member campaign committee and a 58-member Elders Council. Another describes the new council as having 168 members; the reports do not clarify whether the elders are included in that total. The objection came from some members of the State Working Committee. In a statement signed by publicity secretary Wole Adunola and endorsed by three other officials, they rejected the list in its current form, alleging that it breached party guidelines and excluded officials they said should be statutory members. Those claims were made by the signatories and were not independently confirmed in the reports. The officials questioned why the party had introduced...