Youth leaders of All Progressives Congress(APC) from Osun West Senatorial District on Saturday differed over agitation to zone the guber ticket of the party to the district ahead of December 13, 2025, primary.
About 40 youth leaders of the party from five out of ten local government areas, including Ola-oluwa, Isokan, Ede North, Ede South and Ayedire, alleged that their signature were forged in a communique used to seek for West guber candidate.
Addressing newsmen, Hon. Alimi Bakare stated “We never signed any document for guber ticket to be zone to Osun West. Not all youth leaders attended the said meeting, many signatures of those that never attended were forged.
“In Ede North, it was a single person who signed for all 10 youth leaders,” appealing to APC party leaders to give the ticket of the party to the best aspirant and not the West aspirant.
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Hon Amos Amindiya from Ola-Oluwa, Raji Rafiu from Isokan, Idris Aderibigbe among others said “the youth leaders were coerced to agitate for zoning of guber ticket to Osun West rather than the best candidate.”
But Osun West APC leader, Imran Mojeed, reacting to the claim denied allegation of forgery affirming “We all agreed before signing the communique to seek for zoning of guber ticket to Osun West. There is a video evidence as to that.
“I can tell you categorically that those people who are opposing to our positions are just two LCDAs youth leaders, which are not the main council. They attempted to cohorts some leaders even in my own LGA, Ede, by using money to induce them to come and oppose to our stand, I have the evidence and our people rejected.
“We had earlier agreed to plead with the president to zone the gubernatorial ticket of APC to Osun west, so why would they now go back there to backtrack. We didn’t agitated for a particular candidate from the west senetotial district rather, we made it know to the president that we have capable hands in the district.”
He noted that the youths only laid credence to the position of the senatorial party chairman, Gbenga Omolaoye, who had pleaded that the ticked should be zoned to the district.
