Osun 2026: Adeleke‘ll deliver best governance, says Accord party chair

The Chairman, Accord Party in Lagos State, Mr Dele Oladeji, says the party’s candidate, Governor Ademola Adeleke, will deliver the best governance if elected in the August 8, 2026 Osun Governorship Election.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Adeleke emerged as the candidate of the party during its congress on Thursday in Osogbo.

Adeleke, who announced his defection to Accord Party on Tuesday, resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party, earlier in December citing party’s leadership crisis.

Oladeji, in a statement on Saturday in Osogbo, described Adeleke’s candidacy within the party as the “refining stage that forms the fine cut of a diamond.”

According to him, the fusion of Adeleke and Accord Party is the answer to the people’s prayer for a good leader.

“Governor Ademola Adeleke, a confirmed socio‑economic welfarist on a pro‑people platform, will deliver the best governance that is unprecedented in the last two decades in Osun State.

“He will also set an enviable governance template for the country,” he said.

Also in the statement, Adeleke said he was challenging his opposition candidates to a campaign based on governance records.

Adeleke said his campaign would not be about promises, as is the norm in Nigeria’s political space, but about his three years of governance and a new level of social infrastructural development.

The governor also said he would leave a trail of major, monumental project inaugurations throughout his campaign.

“My governance in the past three years has earned me commendable monikers from the people of the state, such as “Mr Project”, “talk‑and‑do”, “the new Awo”, and “the man of the people,” he said.

Adeleke reiterated his choice of Accord as his new party, which he described as a perfect alignment and synchronisation of his people‑centered policies with the party’s people‑focused ideology.

“It is the fission of two pro‑people entities, and the people of Osun State, as well as the democratic history of Osun State, will be the better for it,” the governor said.

(NAN)