A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has declared his intention to contest the 2026 governorship election in Osun State under the ruling party.<\/p>\n
Omisore, a former deputy governor of the state, made the announcement in a post on his \ud835\udd4f handle on Saturday.<\/p>\n
According to him, the formal declaration will hold on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at the APC Secretariat in Ogo-Oluwa, Osogbo, by 10 a.m.<\/p>\n
The declaration, themed \u201cFix the Broken, Restore Our Dreams,\u201d is expected to flag off Omisore\u2019s campaign, which he said would focus on restoring hope, strengthening governance and delivering a brighter future for Osun people.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy beloved people of Osun State, after deep reflection and wide consultations, I have decided to formally declare my intention to contest for the Governor of Osun State in 2026 under our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC),\u201d<\/em> he wrote.<\/p>\n He added, \u201cThis is not just my mission, it is a collective one. I humbly invite you to join me as we take this bold step towards the Osun Rescue Mission 2026.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Omisore, who served as deputy governor of Osun between 1999 and 2003 under the Alliance for Democracy, later became a senator representing Osun East from 2003 to 2011. He was also chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee during his time in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n He first contested the Osun governorship in 2014 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party but lost to the then-incumbent governor, Rauf Aregbesola.<\/p>\n In 2018, he contested again under the Social Democratic Party before formally joining the APC in 2021. Within a year, he emerged as the party\u2019s National Secretary at its national convention in Abuja after his main opponent stepped down.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of Polance Media Inc. Contact us via [email\u00a0protected]<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has declared his intention to contest the 2026 governorship election in Osun State under the ruling party. Omisore, a former deputy governor of the state, made the announcement in a post on his \ud835\udd4f handle on Saturday. According to him, the formal declaration will hold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":236275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[2119,1925],"class_list":["post-236274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-iyiola-omisore","tag-osun-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Iyiola-Omisore.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}