20/05/2026
APC Clears All Oyo Governorship Aspirants for Primary, Denies Adelabu Disqualification Rumour
The National Leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that none of the party’s governorship aspirants in Oyo State has been disqualified from participating in tomorrow’s gubernatorial primary election.
The clarification followed widespread speculation that a former Minister of Power and a governorship aspirants, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, had been disqualified from the contest.
Speaking with journalists at the APC Secretariat in Oke-Ado, Ibadan, on Thursday, the Chairman of the APC House of Assembly/Governorship Primaries Election Committee in Oyo State, Taofeek Olawale Abdulsalam, dismissed the rumours, stating that all aspirants who purchased and submitted the party’s nomination and expression of interest forms had been cleared to contest.
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