Pelumi Olajengbesi, the Accord Party candidate for the Oriade/Obokun Federal Constituency, has launched a challenge at long-serving lawmaker Wole Oke, declaring that the 2027 election will mark the end of what he described as 24 years of recycled leadership and underperformance in the constituency.
Fresh from securing his party’s ticket, the lawyer vowed to champion a new era of youth-driven representation, promising voters a credible alternative to the political status quo that has dominated the constituency since Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999.
Olajengbesi emerged as the Accord Party’s candidate for the House of Representatives seat and was presented with his Certificate of Return on Friday in Osun State in the presence of officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). His emergence sets the stage for a fierce contest against Oke, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who has represented the constituency for nearly a quarter of a century.
The Accord Party chieftain and spokesman for the Imole Campaign Council, which is championing the re-election of Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke, said the constituency had remained stagnant because of the continuous recycling of the same political ideas and leadership.
