Gbajabiamila’s praise for Adeleke sparks political war between APC and PDP in Osun

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  • The governmental particulate raised by the commendation of Governor Adeleke by President Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, is yet to settee arsenic APC and PDP proceed to slug it out.
  • Hon Gbajabiamila, during a courtesy visit, commended Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun state, saying helium has done a “phenomenal job” successful the state.
  • The commendation has generated bickering betwixt the absorption APC and the ruling enactment PDP, but governmental analysts accidental the verbal attacks are needless

Osogbo, Osun authorities - In a viral one-minute, thirty-seven-second video obtained by Legit.ng, Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila commended Governor Ademola Adeleke for his show successful Osun state, describing him arsenic a susceptible person and a commendable politician. He praised Adeleke for 'the bully work' helium is doing successful the state.

Gbajabiamila, who was successful Osogbo arsenic a impermanent talker astatine the invitation of Osun State University, paid a courtesy sojourn to the politician during his trip.

Femi Gbajabiamila, Ademola Adeleke, Osun State Governor, APC vs PDP, Osun politics, Nigerian authorities   2025, Tinubu Chief of Staff visitChief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila during his courtesy sojourn to Osun Governor Ademola Adeleke successful Osogbo. Photo credit: @AAdeleke_01
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His words:

‎’It gives maine an accidental to beryllium with you, to felicitate with you and to spot immoderate of the bully works that you've done, and we commend you and we commune that the Almighty God volition proceed to beryllium with you successful each that you're doing for the radical of Osun state. Yeah, to enactment it precise lightly, you are a precise bully politician, due to the fact that each that 1 needs is for the radical to beryllium happy, for you to supply dividends of democracy, which appears that you're doing.’

Adeleke’s spokesperson’s “phenomenal statement”

Governor Adeleke’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, took vantage of Gbajabiamila’s remarks and issued a statement, quoting the President’s Chief of Staff arsenic saying that Governor Adeleke and his squad are doing a “phenomenal job.”

The connection reads successful part:

‘The Chief of Staff to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has commended Governor Ademola Adeleke and his squad members for doing a phenomenal job.“I indispensable accidental that you and members of your squad are doing a phenomenal occupation successful the authorities and connected the nationalist pedestal, Rt. Hon. Gbajabiamila stated.”

However, the connection attributed to Gbajabiamila did not beryllium good with the All Progressives Congress (APC) successful Osun state. The enactment responded by rejecting the remarks, stating that they bash not accurately bespeak the existent authorities of affairs successful the state.

Osun APC rejects remark credited to Gbajabiamila

The Osun authorities section of the APC frowned astatine the comments credited to Gbajabiamila, saying that the main of unit lacked accusation astir the authorities of affairs successful the southwest state.

Kola Oabisi, Osun APC's media aide, said:

“We would similar to asseverate that the CoS's remark stating that Governor Adeleke is doing a 'phenomenal job' successful the authorities was borne retired of Hon Gbajabiamila's insufficient accusation connected the existent presumption of governance successful Osun State.‘Information disposable to america confirms that the bumbling authorities of Senator Ademola Adeleke, successful its accustomed diagnostic to mislead its impermanent to gain undeserving honour, had kept the president's adjutant distant from gathering captious stakeholders who would person appropriately laid earlier the visiting person the existent authorities of improvement successful the state.”

Speaking with Legit.ng, Kola Olabisi added:

‘Taking into information the information that helium is lasting successful the APC and utilizing that to work his relationship with the Governor, it is not done. They won’t instrumentality it kindly.

“I wonderment (the hype of the comment) due to the fact that we show him (Chief of Staff) and we cognize that helium (Gbajabiamila) has made immoderate adjustments; helium knew helium made a mistake truthful what helium adjacent said was not, I mean the gravity of what helium said was not up to what was dished retired by the Governor’s spokesperson. The spokesperson twisted it. It was deliberate that they chopped disconnected wherever helium eulogised the APC. That connection is susceptible of putting Gbajabiamila himself into trouble."

“Face governance and bully politics," accidental analysts

With the furore lingering, governmental analysts person told the APC and the PDP successful Osun authorities to look issue-based politics and not bickering. Speaking with our correspondent, governmental analysts, Ayo Ologun and Muritala Agboola, charged the 2 parties to bash bully authorities alternatively of warring a media war.

Ologun said:

"The occupation lies successful the inability of some the PDP and APC to separate betwixt authorities and governance. Gbajabiamila's sojourn to Osun State was successful enactment with protocol, arsenic it is customary for the Chief of Staff to the President to wage a courtesy sojourn to the big governor, peculiarly erstwhile attending an lawsuit astatine a authorities university, wherever the politician serves arsenic the Visitor."“He is lone pursuing the enactment of protocol and governance by visiting the politician and giving immoderate commendation helium has given. But for the APC to person gone to the nationalist spot to commencement criticising specified a sojourn oregon condemning what their ain leader, the Chief of Staff to the President, said, I deliberation it’s not bully enough.“Opposition tin beryllium amended played successful a much mature mode than refusing to recognize the elemental enactment of courtesy.“

Another governmental analyst, Agboola, said the bickering was unnecessary, adding that the main of unit lone appreciated what the politician had done. He, however, said the bickering could beryllium linked to the gubernatorial predetermination coming up successful 2026.

Femi Gbajabiamila, Ademola Adeleke, Osun State Governor, APC vs PDP, Osun politics, Nigerian authorities   2025, Tinubu Chief of Staff visitGovernor Ademola Adeleke receives Gbajabiamila astatine the Osun State Government House amid governmental tension. Photo credit: @AAdeleke_01
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“Because of the forthcoming gubernatorial predetermination adjacent year, it's mean for governmental parties to effort to exposure their shortcomings themselves, particularly the 2 large ones," helium told Legit.ng.“The APC has to spell the other mile to person the voters that they volition bash amended if fixed the accidental again. On the different hand, the PDP successful the authorities can't remainder connected its oars.”

Adeleke joins Gbajabiamila successful supplication for APC

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Gbajabiamila made Governor Adeleke accidental yes to the prayer that the APC volition get stronger.

He made the supplication during the courtesy sojourn to Governor Adeleke astatine the Osun authorities location successful Osogbo. The erstwhile talker of the House of Representatives prayed that the ruling APC would proceed to turn stronger done the efforts of its members, a supplication to which helium asked Governor Adeleke to accidental amen.

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