Anambra, Osun polls: Anxieties in APC as Soludo, Adeleke court Tinubu

Members of the All Progressives Congress in Osun and Anambra states have been unsettled by President Bola Tinubu’s ties with their state governors, findings by Sunday PUNCH have revealed.

The aggrieved members argued that Tinubu’s open show of support for Governors Ademola Adeleke (Osun) and Chukwuma Soludo (Anambra) could jeopardise the chances of the party’s candidates in the respective governorship elections.

In Osun, some APC leaders, especially those loyal to the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola, were unhappy with Adeleke’s recent visit to Tinubu at his Lagos residence.

On June 3, Adeleke, alongside his billionaire businessman brother, Dr Deji Adeleke, and his nephew, Afrobeat star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, met Tinubu in Lagos.

Earlier, on May 20, the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, after delivering the maiden annual lecture at the Osun State University, Osogbo, also visited Adeleke at the Government House.

The visitation to Tinubu fuelled reports of the purported move by Adeleke to join the APC amid the defection of PDP governors to the party.

Both Adeleke and APC supporters also took to social media to debate the possibility of the governor joining the ruling party.