{"id":17888,"date":"2026-11-14T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/poor-attendance-at-campaign-flag-off-confirms-adekanmbi-makindes-rejection-oyo-apc-businessday-ng\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T21:46:07","slug":"poor-attendance-at-campaign-flag-off-confirms-adekanmbi-makindes-rejection-oyo-apc-businessday-ng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/poor-attendance-at-campaign-flag-off-confirms-adekanmbi-makindes-rejection-oyo-apc-businessday-ng\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor attendance at campaign flag-off confirms Adekanmbi, Makinde\u2019s rejection &#8211; Oyo APC &#8211; Businessday NG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senator Sharafadeen Alli Campaign Organisation (SSACO) has advised the governorship candidate of the APM in Oyo State, Bimbo Adekanmbi, and his sponsor, Governor Seyi Makinde, to take the humiliating poor attendance at the Saturday governorship campaign flag-off in Oyo town as a reliable signal of the failure awaiting them in the presidential and governorship elections next year.\n<\/p>\n<p>The rally, held at Durbar Stadium in Oyo town, was organised to formally launch the 2027 governorship campaign of the party\u2019s candidate, Bimbo Adekanmbi and other APM candidates for National and State Assemblies. The campaign was a product of months of planning and mobilisation of members from the 33 local governments of the state but became an embarrassing outing.\n<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity, Bisi Oladele, SSACO said the humiliating attendance, including the absence of some candidates, nailed Oyo APC\u2019s position that APM lacks grassroots appeal and meaningful popularity in Oyo State, and, therefore, lacks the capacity to attract widespread support ahead of the 2027 general elections.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe embarrassing poor attendance at the Oyo State APM governorship campaign flag-off in Oyo town on Saturday was another confirmation that Oyo State people have rejected the party\u2019s governorship candidate Hon. Bimbo Adekanmbi and his sponsor Governor Seyi Makinde.\n<\/p>\n<p>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businessday.ng\/politics\/article\/2027-tinubu-calls-for-unity-in-plateau-promises-to-secure-the-region\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2027: Tinubu calls for unity in Plateau, promises to secure the region<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Governor Makinde keeps sinking Oyo State money into Adekanmbi\u2019s governorship bid and his unrealistic presidential election project, both had their ego terribly bruised on Saturday, seeing that Oyo State people have turned their backs on them. For Governor Makinde and Hon. Adekanmbi, it was a sad reality to face, and a bitter pill to swallow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill the people at the grassroots across the 33 local governments of Oyo State forget how they have been robbed of democracy dividends in the last seven and a half years? Will they forget how agriculture, youth development and industrialisation have suffered under Governor Seyi Makinde? They do not forget how rural roads and damaged bridges in their local governments have received no attention due to paralysed local government councils.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Saturday, Oyo State people have told Governor Seyi Makinde, on whose credibility Hon. Adekanmbi is running, that a government of deceit can last for eight years, but the people who are the victims will never forget.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterestingly, Governor Seyi Makinde told the little crowd that Nigerians will show APC in the 2027 elections what it has not seen before. Ironically, Oyo State people used Saturday\u2019s campaign to tell Governor Makinde what he was not ready to hear \u2013 your time is over; therefore, your stooge does not stand a chance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen elected, Senator Sharafadeen Alli will allow local governments to operate, align with the Federal Government and fix the rot of Governor Makinde\u2019s bad governance since 2019 through his Oyo AHEAD agenda.\u201d The statement said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bday-read-also\">\n<h4>Related News<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bday-ad bday-ad--gam\" id=\"bday-ad-2\" data-bday-ad=\"\" data-unit=\"bd-body-2\" data-placement=\"below_share_buttons\" data-partner=\"gam\" data-category=\"display\" data-device=\"all\"><span class=\"bday-ad__label\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"bday-google-badges\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=businessday.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Poor-attendance-at-campaign-flag-off-confirms-Adekanmbi-Makindes-rejection-Oyo-APC-Businessday-NG.jpg\" alt=\"Add BusinessDay as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKQgKIiNDQklTRkFnTWFoQUtEbUoxYzJsdVpYTnpaR0Y1TG01bktBQVAB?hl=en-NG&amp;gl=NG&amp;ceid=NG%3Aen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Poor-attendance-at-campaign-flag-off-confirms-Adekanmbi-Makindes-rejection-Oyo-APC-Businessday-NG-1.jpg\" alt=\"Follow BusinessDay on Google News\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Businessday NG<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senator Sharafadeen Alli Campaign Organisation (SSACO) has advised the governorship candidate of the APM in Oyo State, Bimbo Adekanmbi, and his sponsor, Governor Seyi Makinde, to take the humiliating&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}