{"id":238221,"date":"2025-12-14T00:09:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/president-tinubu-reacts-as-oyebamiji-emerges-osun-apc-governorship-candidate\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T00:09:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:09:40","slug":"president-tinubu-reacts-as-oyebamiji-emerges-osun-apc-governorship-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/president-tinubu-reacts-as-oyebamiji-emerges-osun-apc-governorship-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"President Tinubu Reacts As Oyebamiji Emerges Osun APC Governorship Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>President <strong>Bola Tinubu<\/strong> has congratulated <strong>Bola Oyebamiji<\/strong> on his emergence as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State following the party\u2019s primary election held on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>also praised the Osun State APC for the unity and spirit of reconciliation that preceded and also permeated the primary election conducted through affirmation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abia Radio News<\/strong> recalls that\u00a0Oyebamiji emerged <strong>after he was affirmed<\/strong> by the 1,660 delegates, having been nominated by one of the aspirants, Kunle Adegoke, SAN, and seconded by another aspirant, Senator Babajide Omoworare.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the affirmation, a former governorship aspirant in the party, Kunle Adegoke, said his affirmation follows the decision of the APC national working committee.<\/p>\n<p>Adegoke also said that the other aspirants stepped down for Oyebamiji.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting in a statement by his Special Assistant on Information and Strategy, <strong>Bayo Onanuga<\/strong>, President <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/tinubu\">Tinubu <\/a>applauded all the aspirants who stepped down in favour of Oyebamiji, commending them for demonstrating party loyalty and a collective commitment to the APC\u2019s ideals.<\/p>\n<p>The President urged Oyebamiji to be magnanimous in victory by embracing all party leaders and former aspirants, ensuring inclusivity and cohesion as the party moves forward in the political process.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe journey to reclaim Osun State for the progressive fold in the 2026 governorship election has begun\u201d, the President states. \u201cI urge all members and leaders of APC in the state to remain focused, united, and resolute. Victory is achievable, and together, we will succeed<\/em>,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Bola Oyebamiji on his emergence as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State following the party\u2019s primary election held on Saturday. President Tinubu also praised the Osun State APC for the unity and spirit of reconciliation that preceded and also permeated the primary election conducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":238222,"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":[287,2459,187,1925],"class_list":["post-238221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-bola-oyebamiji","tag-bola-tinubu","tag-osun-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tinubu-and-Oyebamiji.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238221","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=238221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}