{"id":369017,"date":"2026-08-08T12:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/369017\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:43:18","slug":"osun-election-is-apcs-dress-rehearsal-for-presidential-poll-dele-momodu-to-adeleke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/369017\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Osun election is APC&#8217;s dress rehearsal for presidential poll&#8217; &#8211; Dele Momodu to Adeleke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dele Momodu, has said President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC, will use the Osun State election as a dress rehearsal for their nefarious preparation for the 2027 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Momodu made the claim in a warning to Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State ahead\u00a0of next Saturday\u2019s governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>Posting on X, Momodu warned Adeleke not to expect the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to organize a free, fair and credible election on\u00a0Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Melaye, Tinubu is completely controlling INEC.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cMy twin brother, I\u2019m led in spirit to send you this brief message, for posterity sake. Please, take note of the following:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet no one deceive you that INEC, under the complete control of President Bola Tinubu will organize a free, fair and credible election in Osun State next week, August 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ruling APC government is determined to use your election as the dress rehearsal for their nefarious preparation for the Presidential election in January 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe devil has taken possession of their hardened souls and they\u2019re ready to play God because of power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Momodu alleged that APC members in Osun had been directed to employ any means necessary to ensure that the party won the governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWe have a lot of friends in APC and we\u2019ve been warned to expect any eventuality. The instruction to their foot-soldiers is simple: grab Osun by any means necessary and deal with the resultant volcano thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease, hold on tightly to God as you\u2019ve always been. We are proud of the uncommon work you\u2019ve done, and doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet them campaign with the work they did in the past. Little or nothing to show. You are loved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    You may like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dele Momodu, has said President Bola Tinubu and the All&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[4440,1931,15931,122,66151],"class_list":["post-369017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-adeleke","tag-apc","tag-dele-momodu","tag-nigeria","tag-osun"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/117059951141442508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}