Osun 2026: APC, Adeleke Bicker Over ‘Alleged Plan To Bomb INEC Office, Kill Officials’

-As Governor threatens N5bn lawsuit against APC spokesperson

The major opposition political party in Osun State, the All Progressives Congress and the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, have traded words over an alleged plot to bomb the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission and kill top electoral officials during the 2026 governorship election in the state.

The APC accused Governor Adeleke of complicity in an alleged viral clip where a man was advising the governor and other leaders of the ruling party to drop missiles on INEC collation centre once there is any sign that the body wants to rig the forthcoming election.

A statement by the APC Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, claimed that Adeleke failed to condemn the video clip containing the assassination plot against the electoral commission, saying, “the complicity and maximum desperation about the 2026 governorship election which is the reason the acclaimed Chief Security Officer of the state is yet to condemn a video that has gone viral and suspected to have been sent out by one of the ruling People’s Democratic Party chieftains in the state.”

Olabisi said, “In the video, the chieftain of the PDP recommended the bombing of the state office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), just as he expressed his apprehension about the likely outcome of the 2026 governorship election in Osun State.

“He stated that what happened in the recently held governorship election in Edo State would be replicated in Osun State in the forthcoming 2026 governorship election.

“The agent of the devil under the auspices of the Osun State chapter of the PDP stated that he was disappointed in some PDP governors who addressed a press conference in Benin City, Edo State capital, while awaiting the results of the election. According to him, such a press conference was a misplaced priority, adding that what was needed at that particular point in time would have been the bombing of the INEC office.

“It is the example of what the APC would do in Osun State that it did in Edo State last week. Whoever wants to die let him die.

“There ought to have been a clandestine arrangement whereby one or two chartered bomb-laced helicopters would have been stationed in the neighbouring Delta State from where they would have successfully bombed the INEC office where close to 150 and 200 innocent people including the Resident Electoral Commissioner, the AIG, the Returning Officer and Presiding Officers would have met their untimely death.

“I can remember that we suggested the same maximum violence for Osun State during the 2022 elections in the state but it was needless as we won the election.

“We must realize the fact that the Osun APC never knew that they could lose the 2022 governorship election. If we are slacked now and we allow them to win the 2026 governorship election, there is no way that the PDP could take it back from them again till eternity.

“We must be prepared towards the next election and be ready to kill close to 200 innocent people including the REC, the AIG, the Returning Officer and the Presiding Officers through bombing of the INEC office so that they won’t be able to either collate or count the ballot papers let alone announce any result.

“We should work towards it as no one would know who might have carried out the dastardly act. Go and kill the people in order to implicate the INEC. They won’t be able to declare the results. It would attract the attention of the United Nations” the anonymous PDP chieftain suggested.”

According to Olabisi, today, “It was bizarre that close to one week that the wicked video message has gone viral, neither Governor Adeleke nor the leadership of the ruling party, has deemed it fit to condemn the issue which is a good ground to suspect the complicity of the governor and his cohorts in the unsavoury development.”

The state APC spokesman therefore tasked the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun to investigate the matter with a view to bringing to book whoever might be behind the devilish plan to spill the blood of the innocent people because of elections.

Meanwhile, Governor Adeleke has threatened to direct his lawyers to sue Olabisi for N5 billion as damages over the alleged defamatory statement he issued.

“The APC director had accused the Governor of complicity in a viral recording by a supposed PDP chieftain who issued an alleged threat to bomb the state electoral commission and kill top officials of the commission.

“The APC director went further to call for the investigation and prosecution of leading leaders of the PDP including Governor Adeleke for allegedly directing the issuance of the recording by the unnamed PDP Chieftain,” a statement by Adeleke’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed said.

He described as irresponsible the alleged defamatory allegations by the APC director, asking him to “retract the baseless and unfounded allegations or face legal action.”

“The allegation is reprehensible, baseless and defamatory. Mr Governor has ordered his lawyers to review the situation and demand retraction as the Governor did not and has not in any way planned or plot any attack on either INEC or any electoral official.

“Upon failure to retract the offensive publication, the state director faces a potential libel suit with a demand for five billion naira damages. This deliberate falsehood will have consequences,” the statement noted.