Osun Rainbow Coalition: APC, Accord, PDP leaders join Adeleke on Tinubu campaign
By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA: Leaders of the All Progressives Congress APC, the Accord and the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Osun State have united as part of a rainbow coalition to back President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 bid.…
Osun State's political landscape has been fiercely contested in recent years, with the APC, PDP and Accord Party trading control of the governorship and legislative seats amid court battles and defections. Governor Ademola Adeleke, elected on the PDP platform, has increasingly positioned himself as an ally of President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 election cycle, a realignment that cuts against the traditional PDP-APC rivalry and has implications for party structures across the South-West.
The coverage agrees that a broad coalition spanning party lines has emerged around Adeleke to back Tinubu's re-election bid, with Vanguard detailing the cross-party composition of the "Rainbow Coalition" and Punch highlighting the notable silence from the Osun APC leadership following the unveiling of a sizeable campaign council. That silence raises questions — not yet addressed in the reports — about whether the state APC structure endorses the move, how it affects the party's own 2027 plans in Osun, and what role, if any, national party leaderships played in sanctioning the arrangement.