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APC Members Knock Yemi Lawal Over Comment Describing Tinubu as “Political Jobber”

Published by admin on May 29th, 2026.

APC Members Knock Yemi Lawal Over Comment Describing Tinubu as “Political Jobber”

Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State have faulted a former Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Yemi Lawal, over remarks allegedly describing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a “political jobber” while defending the political history of former National Secretary of the APC, Otunba Iyiola Omisore.

Lawal, a close ally of Omisore, reportedly made the statement on Friday during a TV programme monitored in Osogbo.

During the programme, one of the guests reportedly described Omisore and some of his loyalists as “political jobbers” for allegedly abandoning their political ideology through frequent movement across political parties.

The guest noted that Omisore moved from the progressive Alliance for Democracy (AD) in 2001 to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), later joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP), before eventually becoming a member of the APC.

In an apparent attempt to rationalize Omisore’s movement across political parties, Lawal was said to have compared Omisore’s political journey with that of President Tinubu.

According to him, “President Bola Tinubu is also a political jobber because he too changed parties at different times.”

The comment has, however, generated reactions among party members and political commentators, many of whom questioned the propriety of dragging the President into the defence of Omisore’s political inconstancy.

Some APC members argued that Tinubu’s political trajectory was entirely different from that of Omisore, insisting that the President did not defect out of personal political convenience.

According to the commentators, Tinubu only became part of the APC after his former party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), collapsed its structure alongside other opposition parties to form a mega political platform ahead of the 2015 general elections.

They explained that the APC emerged from the merger involving the ACN, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).

The commentators maintained that comparing Tinubu’s role in the historic coalition that birthed the APC with Omisore’s serial movement across political parties was unfair, misleading, and insulting to the President.

Many APC members in Osun also interpreted Lawal’s comments as reflecting the opinion of his political benefactor, Omisore, stressing that the statement was disrespectful to President Tinubu and unacceptable within the progressive fold.