Osun 2026: Adeleke inaugurates re-election campaign team

…ex-PDP Natl’ scribe, Senate minority leader to lead campaign 

Ahead of the 2026 Osun State governorship election, Governor Ademola Adeleke on Wednesday inaugurated his re-election campaign team, expressing strong confidence in his chances at the polls.

Speaking during the inauguration at his campaign office, Adeleke said he was optimistic about securing victory, declaring that the political momentum was in his favour.

The campaign team is chaired by former National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prof. Wale Oladipo, while Senate Minority Leader, Senator Lere Oyewumi, is also part of the leadership structure.

The governor reiterated his confidence in the team’s capacity to deliver success in the forthcoming election.

He said “I am already feeling the cloud of victory around me with my team and Accord Party. I am feeling the victory, the defeat of our opponents. This team is heading to victory. My spirit confirms our party, the Accord, is declared winner with wide margins.

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"This is how we started in 2022. Today is the march to victory on August 15th. I hereby inaugurate this Campaign Council to the service of continuity and delivery of good governance".

Senator Oyewumi admonished supporters of Adeleke and Accord Party members on the need to intensify voters education ahead of the election. 

He noted that Adeleke is not seeking a reelection on a popular platform of PDP but on Accord, hence there is a need to rigorously educate electorate about where to vote. 

According to him “What we did in 2018 and 2022 is different from what we are going to do now because God has promoted us from opposition party to the ruling party, the style of somebody in opposition is quite different from the campaign style of somebody who is not only in government that is doing very well in government.

"We are going to disappoint a lot of people in town who are thinking we are going to join the issue with people that has nothing to sell. Our candidate is good and market is fine so what is the problem. If we are here in the next one year we can not tell Osun people everything Governor has done."