Support all APC candidates or stay away, Oyo APC tells group

The All Progressives Congress in Oyo State has warned promoters of a political group, Boye Nation, against campaigning for candidates of different political parties ahead of the 2027 general elections, insisting that anyone supporting its presidential candidate must also work for all its other candidates.

The party said the group should either return to the APC and support all its candidates or stay away from its campaign activities.

The warning followed the circulation of a video on social media showing vehicles branded with campaign messages and photographs of President Bola Tinubu of the APC and the governorship candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement in Oyo State, Bimbo Adekanmbi.

The vehicles also carried the symbol of Boye Nation and the logos of both parties, but had no accompanying voice messages.

In a statement issued in Ibadan on Thursday, the Oyo APC Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, said the party was open to reconciliation with aggrieved members but warned that its willingness to engage them should not be mistaken for weakness.

He said, “We have got the reports from different sources that some individuals, who are behind the Boye Nation activities in Ibadan, are perfecting plans to create confusion in the polity.

“Some of these people celebrate their confusion on social media, but we can only wish them the best of luck. Information has it that some individuals who left our party recently are now trying to campaign for President Bola Tinubu against the presidential candidate of their new party.

“While we sympathise with the man in question, as he and his group must have realised the fatal error in their recent political move, we urge them to return home and play the role expected of them as progressive family members.”

Sadare said the party would not accept campaign materials bearing the logos of multiple political parties, adding that support for Tinubu must extend to other APC candidates.

“If you are supporting our presidential candidate, Asiwaju Tinubu, you must be intentional by working for the governorship, senatorial, House of Representatives and House of Assembly candidates of the APC at the same time, as doing otherwise would be unacceptable to us,” the statement added.

PUNCH Online reports that Ajiboye Sangogade, popularly known as Boye Nation, a former personal assistant and loyalist of ex-Minister of Power, Bayo Adelabu, led a group of APC members who defected to the APM in Oyo State in September 2026.