Ogun Central APC Fractures as Osoba Loses Control of His Own Stakeholders’ Meeting

A stakeholders’ meeting convened at the Hilltop residence of APC chieftain Chief Aremo Olusegun Osoba descended into open revolt on Wednesday, exposing deepening fractures within the Ogun Central Senatorial District chapter of the ruling party and raising fresh questions about the elder statesman’s capacity to hold the APC together ahead of the 2027 elections.

The meeting, organised to bring senatorial aspirants under one roof, instead became the stage for a dramatic public confrontation — one that Osoba, seated as convener, could not contain.

Those present included Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Senator Shuaib Salisu, Senator Gbenga Obadara, a female aspirant, a medical doctor, and the candidate known as “Three Co,” among others. What was intended as a consultation exercise rapidly unravelled after Senator Amosun rose to address the gathering.

Amosun opened with a striking claim: that President Bola Tinubu had already ceded the Ogun Central senatorial ticket to him personally and had directed him to deploy his political weight behind Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, known as Yayi, for governor. The room pushed back immediately. Attendees demanded to know when and under what circumstances the President made such a declaration. No satisfactory answer came.

Amosun then compounded his position by claiming that four of those seated in the same room had already stepped down and endorsed his candidacy. Chief Osoba asked him to name them. He did — listing Senator Obadara, Senator Salisu, the female aspirant, and “Three Co.”

The room erupted.

All four aspirants rejected the claim in real time, rising to dispute it loudly and publicly. The session deteriorated so rapidly that Amosun was, by multiple accounts, unable to leave Chief Osoba’s residence immediately after the meeting ended.

The confrontation cut deeper still when Senator Salisu addressed those present about how Amosun had, over the years, worked to damage his reputation within the party. Other aspirants raised the matter of the two previous general elections in which Amosun allegedly worked against APC candidates in Ogun State, demanding to know on what moral basis he now presents himself as the party’s preferred choice in the district.

Chief Osoba, unable to bring the session to any resolution, promised to convene another meeting to address the grievances raised. It was a concession that, in the room’s charged atmosphere, carried the unmistakable weight of a leader who had lost the moment.

The Hilltop session lays bare the scale of the internal crisis now consuming Ogun APC ahead of 2027. For Abuja, the signals from Wednesday’s meeting are difficult to ignore: the party’s most senior figure in Ogun State presided over a gathering that collapsed into open rebellion — and left without delivering a single line of consensus.