2027: Oyo APC Trailing Same Path Of Shame By Joshua Igbayilola (JP)

The gathering momentum in the Oyo State political climate seems not to be different from the last transition, 2023 general elections aside the gubernatorial race which is hosting a series of new candidates as the incumbent Seyi Makinde is seeing out his two term mandatory tenure as governor while the two major and formidable political parties; the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) morphed Allied People’s Movement (APM) members are moving heaven and earth towards having respective favorable outings in the fast approaching electioneerings.

Although, none of the two namely; APC and APM is devoid of bickerings over the process through which many candidates emerged for the next elections. The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the federal and reigning Allied People’s Movement (APM) in the state are leaving no stones unturned in getting their respective houses in order ahead of the polls which many believe will make or perpetuate another myth like late former Governor Isiaka Ajimobi broke the yoke of second term jinx in the 2025 general elections. All eyes are on Seyi Makinde to outclass his immediate successor by guiding his anointed candidate to the success in the coming gubernatorial poll.

Meanwhile, Moses Alake-Adeyemo led Oyo State APC Executives which many political watchers applauded its composition on declaration as the most appropriate in the absence of either a former or ruling governor to superintend the affairs of the party have quickly and woefully failed the first litmus test of its tenure with the cheap usurpation of authority of the party by the invisible power brokers. The raging polarization of the party over the imposition of some candidates even against the outcomes of the primary elections duly organized by the party with the supervision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) representatives have badly dampened the morale of the main opposition party members in Oyo State.

Specifically, the disturbing daring occasioned by the brazen substitution of Morufat Ajibola Ishaq who was announced on the 16th May, 2026 as the winner of the Ibadan North East/South East Federal Constituency ticket to Ibraheem Olayode Iyiola is felt to be poorly weakening the chance of the party in the two local government areas widely believed to be a main pool of votes in Oyo South Senatorial District. Albeit, the regressive and undemocratic act is not limited to the downcast members of the domain but across the five go-political zones of the state where a group of political racketeers imported ghost and unmarketable individuals as candidates for different seats at the detriment of those elected by the members in the primary elections.

In beaming searchlight into the towering prominence of Ishaq in the happening contention, it was uncovered that her choice by the majority of the members and leaders through the length and breath of the federal constituency was not ordinarily because she hails from Ibadan North East Local Government area which most of the party faithful and concerned stakeholders are craving that the ticket be zoned as a mean of fairness and equity to the area chiefly the apolitical constituents who argue that the progressive ACN/APC have not been fair to the side since the 2011 return of the party into the reckoning.

According to the findings, Morufat Ishaq is felt to be well loved and rooted as a philanthropist with her household name, Bibire and politician beyond the Ibadan political space having been a renowned textile dealer at the popular new Gbagi market before floating one of the most equipped unisex hair salon at Oje market practically to be in the midst of her immediate constituents, rendering support and rooting his political fraternity, APC among the teeming market men and women who used to be diehard conservatives of Ibadan projects until her efforts yielded with the unprecedented winning of Hon. Adedapo Lam-Adesina in the local government in the 2023 national assembly elections before was later rigged out in Ibadan South East Local Government area.

Inadvertently, the acceptance and fame of Morufat Ajibola Ishaq, a daughter of a popular community leader, Alhaji Yekeen Animasahun popularly called Baba Adajo in Ward 6, Temidire Oje widely known to be the stronghold and votes pool of the moribund Accord before the PDP traverse mere political outreaches but entrenchment of values and honor which the teeming displeased and agitated members of APC as well as supporters are worried on how to suppress should the unfolding undemocratic ploys plotted to deny the anxious Ibadan North East / South East Federal constituents the grace to relishing a lease of purposeful and responsive representation in the House of Representatives, Abuja promised by the iconic woman.

The mutual-worrisome concern among the various political blocks are the types of strategic approaches the hijackers of the Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC) are willing to deploy to appease different group of aggrieved aspirants who were denied their fundamental right to partake in the primary exercises, the winners of the primary elections whose their names (mandates) were being illegally substituted for losers and mostly the teeming members across the three hundred and fifty one wards who assiduously explored the missions a and resources of various aspirants in the last few month ago to reawake the consciousness of the supporters at the grassroots hoping fair and square process towards the emergence of the best of the best among all the hopefuls would ease their evangelism and energize their spirits to work harder for the success of the party in the next general elections.