Governor Ademola Adeleke yesrterday inaugurated a 350-member Rainbow Committee comprising leaders and chieftains of the Accord Party the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to mobilise support for President Bola Tinubu’s re-election.
The coalition also promised to deliver two million votes for the APC presidential candidate in the forthcoming election scheduled for January 2027.
Adeleke was accompanied by members of his cabinet and National and State Assembly candidates of the Accord Party alongside the party’s state chairman Pastor Victor Akande and other members.
The PDP State Chairman Sunday Bisi led the party’s 2027 candidates and structures in mobilising support for Tinubu.
Among the APC leaders present were the party’s National Secretary Senator Ajibola Basiru; Chief Bisi Akande; Chief Shuaib Oyedokun; Senator Iyiola Omisore; and former lawmakers among others.
Speaking at the event Adeleke said: ‘We assemble here to mobilise and deliver even more than the 1.5 million votes we earlier promised Mr President.’
He noted that the committee brought together political leaders across party lines saying: ‘We have all the strikers the defenders and the midfielders. This rainbow coalition of Accord APC and PDP structures is superbly potent to deliver Osun overwhelmingly to Mr President come next year January.’
He tasked the coalition with mobilising support in a spirit of unity stressing: ‘From the pain of the past we must unite for the prosperity of the future. From unity in diversity we must forge a new brotherhood behind our leader Asiwaju Tinubu.’
Earlier Basiru urged political stakeholders in Osun State to set aside personal ambitions and party interests to support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election bid.
He called on all stakeholders to work with Governor Adeleke to ensure the success of the campaign for Tinubu.
Basiru attributed the financial and developmental progress recorded in the country to reforms introduced by the Tinubu administration citing ongoing road construction projects declining inflation and interventions in education financing.
He said about 5500 kilometres of roads were under construction nationwide adding that he had observed progress on the concrete road project from Asejire towards Gbongan and another section extending towards Ilesa.
The APC National Secretary dismissed opposition criticisms of the economy arguing that international rating agencies and economic organisations had acknowledged Nigeria’s progress and stability.
He called on Osun residents to reject what he described as attempts to mislead them and avoid a return to the period when governments struggled to pay workers’ salaries.
Similarly the pioneer interim National Chairman of the APC Chief Akande hailed Adeleke for leading the people of Osun to support Tinubu’s re-election.
He described Adeleke as a pathfinder saying: ‘I salute Governor Adeleke for having the courage and the capacity to bring us to this hall to march towards the noble course of the Yoruba race.’
Akande called for unity across political divides to secure a landslide victory for Tinubu.
‘We have one of our sons in Yorubaland as the President of Nigeria and he is entitled to two terms in office. We are all praying that he should have his second term in office and I learnt that in Osun State Governor Adeleke has been asked to lead the people of Osun State to achieve two million votes on January 16 2027’ he said.
Omisore also called for support across party lines.
‘We need everybody irrespective of political affiliation including ADC Accord and others to vote for President Bola Tinubu. We are not talking about governorship NASS and State Assembly elections but the re-election of our leader’ he said.
‘We should work hard to deliver two million votes for President Tinubu; it is possible and we must play our role effectively. I commend Governor Adeleke for the role he is playing in ensuring the success of our party in the forthcoming presidential election’ Omisore added.