Osun 2026: I didn’t authorize Adeleke endorsement – Monarch 

Oba Wahab Oyedotun, the Orangun of Ila successful Osun State, has denied endorsing immoderate campaigner up of the 2026 governorship election, insisting helium remains politically neutral.

The monarch’s clarification followed a connection by the Osun State Government claiming that a delegation of Ila-Orangun chiefs visited Governor Ademola Adeleke and pledged enactment for his re-election connected behalf of the accepted ruler and the community.

Speaking astatine his palace, Oba Oyedotun said “he could not favour immoderate governmental enactment due to the fact that galore of his subjects beryllium to antithetic governmental groups”. 

He stressed that his superior interest is the improvement of Ila-Orangun alternatively than partisan politics.

The royal begetter urged accepted rulers crossed Yorubaland to debar governmental divisions, noting that politicians from antithetic parties stay their subjects and often support relationships contempt governmental differences.

While acknowledging that those down the endorsement are members of his community, the monarch said helium was uncomfortable with the usage of his name, stressing that helium neither authorised nor approved immoderate endorsement.

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