The African Democratic Congress<\/strong> (ADC) has again denied reports that it has chosen a candidate for the 2026 governorship election in Osun State.<\/p>\n According to a statement made available to Abia Radio News on Wednesday by the party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi<\/strong>, reports claiming the ADC has chosen a candidate for the Osun polls are false and should be disregarded by the public.<\/p>\n He added that the ADC flagbearer would emerge at a primary election set to be conducted by the party.<\/p>\n Abdullahi urged all aspirants to adhere to the guidelines, instructions and timetable already released by the party.<\/p>\n \u201cThe African Democratic Congress would like to affirm our earlier statement that videos and social media posts claiming that the party has \u201cpicked\u201d a candidate are false and should be disregarded.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cFor the purpose of conducting the primaries to elect the party\u2019s flagbearer for the 2026 governorship election in Osun, a timetable has been released and widely publicised. All aspirants are urged to adhere strictly to the guidelines.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cFor the avoidance of doubts, the ADC remains committed to the highest standards of internal democracy, anchored on a free, fair and transparent electoral process,<\/em>\u201d he said in the statement.<\/p>\n Abia Radio News<\/strong> recalls that the ADC had also earlier dismissed claims<\/strong> circulating on social media that it had already selected a candidate ahead of the 2026 Osun State governorship election.<\/p>\n The party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi<\/strong>, in a statement on Sunday, described the reports as false, misleading and not traceable to any official ADC communication channel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of Tee Global Innovataions. Contact us via [email\u00a0protected]<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has again denied reports that it has chosen a candidate for the 2026 governorship election in Osun State. According to a statement made available to Abia Radio News on Wednesday by the party\u2019s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, reports claiming the ADC has chosen a candidate for the Osun polls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":235209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[5],"tags":[231,891,1925],"class_list":["post-237874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-adc","tag-bolaji-abdullahi","tag-osun-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Gu1zz-TWEAAtJJd-1000x600.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237874","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=237874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}