The lawmaker representing Osun Central in the Senate, Olubiyi Fadeyi, has rejected the results of the party’s primary election, in which he lost the ticket for the 2027 general elections.
Olubiyi made this known in a statement he personally signed, obtained in Osogbo on Tuesday.
Ayo further said, “Adegoke polled 26,655 votes to emerge victorious, while Fadeyi received 13,138 votes.”
Other aspirants for the ticket, Yomi Ogunwale scored 2,925, Akintunde Adegboye, 342 votes, while Olu Fakeye got 067 votes.
But Fadeyi, in rejecting the results of the exercise, declared that figures allocated to the aspirants were written in a hotel premises, insisting that no valid election took place.
“No valid primary election was conducted on May 19 across the 116 wards in Osun Central Senatorial District.
The exercise was deliberately manipulated to rig me out of the process. There was no official collation centre. Results were instead written in an undisclosed hotel in Osogbo,” Fadeyi said.
He added that President Bola Tinubu and party leaders were clearly in support of a consensus arrangement for the Osun Central Senatorial District and expressed concern that the agreement was ultimately disregarded.
He appealed to APC members and his supporters to remain calm and refrain from issuing statements on the matter going forward, assuring them that the mandate allegedly stolen “through the back door” will not stand.
Senator Fadeyi also reassured the people of Osun Central that “Appropriate party channels have been activated and will be duly followed to address the situation.”
He called on APC leaders in the state to urgently intervene in the matter, emphasising that he remains a leader with a good vision for the party.
Fadeyi, alongside four other lawmakers elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party in the 2023 election, had in 2025 defected to the All Progressives Congress, blaming prolonged crises in their erstwhile party for the decision.
Reacting, Osun APC spokesperson, Kola Olabisi, said aggrieved party members have the right to explore party mechanisms to seek redress.
He said, “It is within the constitutional right of any dissatisfied aspirant to seek redress through the party’s mechanism set up for such purpose.
“The development is a pointer to the fact that our party absolutely believes and acts by the rule of law, which has, all along, been the pedestal on which it stands.
“At any point in time, to jaw-jaw is better than to war-war. Our democracy is indeed advancing, and with the option of this nature, the political future of our nation is bright.”
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