A governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State, Dr Akin Ogunbiyi, has said that if given the party’s ticket for the 2026 poll, it would unite the APC going into the crucial election.
Ogunbiyi spoke in Osogbo on Monday shortly after meeting the APC local government chairmen.
The aspirant, who declared that the party leaders across the 30 Local Government Areas in the state accorded him a warm reception at the meeting, said his attendants as an entrepreneur would be a leverage to improve different sectors of the Osun economy, if elected governor.
“I wish you were at the meeting. It was fulfilling. I was well received. I was not new to them, they know my antecedents and some of them who don’t know have read about me, and I’m so popular within Osun State. This is the third time I’m aspiring to be the governor of the state, so I’m not new to it.
“The last three years, I have been with APC, they know what I have been doing, so it is nothing new to them. I was well received and we discussed things of importance and will bring progress to APC and ultimately deliver the party ticket, God willing, to me, and of course, if we have the party ticket, by God’s grace, we’ll win the election 2026.
“I again stand as a unifying factor among all the candidates, and I believe that by the special grace of God, if I emerge, they will rally round to support me and the progressives,” Ogunbiyi said.
The governorship hopeful, when asked what he would do if the APC did not pick him as its flagbearer, pledged not to begrudge anyone but to remain committed to the party’s desire to reclaim the State.
He said, “Peradventure, I’m not picked, I won’t have any grudge. If you know my antecedents, I am the only one who was labelled as doing politics without robbery, and there is nothing that is worth dying for. I am an accomplished young man by the grace of God.
“I just want to serve my people at this level in Osun State. I’ve been a member of the Osun Development Association, and we have a master plan on how Osun should be developed.
“Osun should move down from being a civil service state. Osun should be the most prosperous state in Nigeria despite the fact that we don’t have oil, but we have gold, and we have land good for agriculture. We have so many things we can turn into money.”
