“It’s a blackmail script” — APC dismisses Adeleke aide kidnap claim

OSOGBO — In a state where allegations of staged abductions and political blackmail have become almost a season fixture, the Osun chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has fired the latest salvo.

It alleges that the purported kidnap of an aide to Governor Ademola Adeleke is nothing more than a scripted plot to blackmail the party and President Bola Tinubu.

ValidViewNetwork can confirm that the Osun APC’s claim inverts the more familiar pattern in the state’s political warfare, where it has typically been the Adeleke camp and its allies accusing the APC of orchestrating abductions, arrests and intimidation against their members.

This accusation lands on well-trodden ground. Since Adeleke’s contested emergence as governor, Osun’s political actors have traded a steady stream of kidnap and blackmail allegations: the PDP once accused APC-aligned thugs of plotting to kill Adeleke ahead of his election.

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The APC later alleged the governor’s camp was plotting to arrest NURTW executives using a “compromised” judge; and the Imole Campaign Council separately accused a police commissioner of colluding with APC chieftains during Osun’s 2026 governorship contest.

According to reports gotten by ValidViewNetwork, the Osun APC contends that the purported kidnap is a manufactured narrative timed to generate sympathy for the governor’s camp while casting suspicion on the ruling party and the presidency.

This is a serious charge that, if substantiated, would represent one of the more brazen escalations in the state’s long-running political theatre.

Where this typically leads

Findings show that such allegations in Osun rarely receive swift, neutral resolution: past claims from both sides have tended to fade into the broader noise of political grandstanding rather than result in independent investigation or accountability.

ValidViewNetwork gathered that security agencies are yet to issue an official position on the alleged kidnap, and until they do, both camps’ dueling narratives are likely to keep circulating unchecked in Osun’s combustible political atmosphere.