Osun 2026: AMBO denies alleged secret police meeting
By Deborah Oladejo, Osogbo
The Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji (AMBO) Media Front has dismissed a publication by an online news platform (not Western Post) alleging that a gubernatorial aspirant in Osun State and current MD/CEO of the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Bola Oyebamiji, held a closed-door meeting with one ACP Adekunle Ige, a MOPOL 39 commander, aimed at influencing security arrangements in the state to favor him at the poll.
In a statement issued and signed by the group’s coordinator, Adebayo Adedeji described the report as “false and malicious,” saying it was a calculated attempt to distract the Ikire-born politician from his lofty 2026 project of delivering the state from the doldrums it was plunged into by the present government in Abeere.
“We sense that the power mongers have seen the 2026 defeat staring them in the face, thus preparing the ground of excuse for the failure awaiting them next year.
“In the last one month, particularly after Oyebamiji declared his gubernatorial intention to oust Governor Ademola Adeleke from office, his person has come under intensely and viciously false attacks — a development affirming that AMBO truly is the most feared aspirant in Osun to dislodge the incumbent Governor Ademola Adeleke.”
The group categorically denied that Oyebamiji met with any police officer for any reason connected to elections or for the purpose of breaching the fragile security architecture in the state or influencing the withdrawal of security details from political actors in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
They said, “It is glaring that the evil forces behind the smear campaign against Asiwaju Oyebamiji are those either haunted by the cruelty of their immediate past or troubled by the towering profile of our political megastar, whose resolve to set Osun free from the manacles of economic plunderers feeding fat on the commonwealth of the people is daily strengthened by enthusiastic citizens.
“Given the chances the candidature of our principal offers the All Progressives Congress (APC), the progressive party in the state would not need to resort to backdoor tactics and brigandage to send packing — through the ballot — the bumbling government, which, despite earning close to N1 trillion in revenue in 30 months, has nothing meaningful or ambitious to show for it.”
The Media Front urged the public to disregard the publication, calling it “seditious and malicious.”
