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Olajengbesi Claims Defected Lawmakers Won With Adeleke’s Influence, Mayowa Amotekun Defends Ajilesoro’s Electoral Record in Osun

Published by admin on April 25th, 2026.

Olajengbesi Claims Defected Lawmakers Won With Adeleke’s Influence, Mayowa Amotekun Defends Ajilesoro’s Electoral Record in Osun

I watched the interview granted by the Spokesperson of the Imole Campaign Council, Pelumi Olajengbesi, on Westerspring Television, where he answered a question about the PDP Senators and House of Representatives members from Osun State who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Olajengbesi said, “Those 5 National Assembly members who defected to APC are inconsequential to the coming Osun Election, and the majority of them used Adeleke’s influence to win their elections.” 😅 Well, I am not here to defend the other four members, but to defend my own man Hon. Taofeeq Abimbola Ajilesoro, (The Pride of the Source of Yoruba Race)

Let me take Pelumi back down memory lane, because it was clear that he was still a political juvenile and novice as of 2019, when Abimbola Ajilesoro won his first election to the National Assembly. In that same election, Pelumi contested against Desmond Ojo of the APC in the Oriade State Constituency and was defeated.

The question I need to ask Pelumi is this, what stopped him from using Governor Adeleke’s same influence to win just a single local government seat in Oriade where he was defeated badly with Desmond Ojo APC- 12,088 votes and Pelumi Olajengbesi of PDP- 9,913 ? After all, according to what Pelumi wants his fellow morons to accept, Ajilesoro supposedly used the Governor’s influence to win the Ife Federal Constituency, which comprises four local governments. If that should be the case, what stopped the likes of Akanni Olorunwa, Gani Olaoluwa, Lere Oyewumi, Adelowokan, Adebayo Gangaria, and others including the Speaker Wale Egbedun from using that same assumed Governor Adeleke influence to win their elections?

As a historian, let me take Pelumi further back down memory lane. Hon. Taofeeq Abimbola Ajilesoro was the only National Assembly member in Osun State who contested in the most difficult year (2019) and in the most difficult Federal Constituency (Ife land). The coalition between the defunct Iyiola Omisore’s SDP and the APC made Ife land a difficult and a battleground for Ajilesoro and the PDP.

Yoruba adage says, “Eni t’óbá máa dá Aso róni, t’orùn e ni àkókówò” meaning, (we should first examine the clothes being worn by the person who wants to give someone else clothes to wear).

Let me ask Pelumi, what was Governor Adeleke’s influence in Ife land during the 2018 and 2022 gubernatorial elections?

During the 2018 gubernatorial election, Governor Ademola Adeleke performed woefully and was defeated convincingly across all four local governments in Ife. So, what influence could someone who garnered a mere 3,000 votes in Ife Central and 6000 votes in Ife East in 2018 have had over the mighty Ajilesoro who garnered 17,000 votes and 12,000 votes in the same area in 2019?

As a PDP member in 2018, I can tell you that in my polling unit, Okiti Unit, Governor Adeleke garnered just 27 votes, SDP garnered 261 votes, and APC garnered 114 votes, and that was the story across Ile-Ife. Even the PDP leader in Ife, Prof. Wale Oladipo, and the current Deputy Governor, Prince Kola Adewusi, could only deliver 19 votes for the Governor in their Ile-Seru polling unit at Ilode ward. Yet in the 2019 general election, despite the coalition between Omisore and the formidable APC in Ife land, Ajilesoro won my polling unit with 297 votes, against APC’s 281 votes and the Accord Party of Hon. Segun Fanibe’s with 4 votes.

Iyiola Omisore’s SDP defeated Adeleke’s PDP by a margin of 32,000 plus votes in the 2018 election, while Ajilesoro’s PDP defeated the combined coalition of APC and SDP which fielded Hon. Folorunso Bamisaiyemi, by 7,000 votes difference.

The same pattern repeated itself in the 2022 gubernatorial election and the 2023 general election. Governor Ademola Adeleke lost in Ife East, Ife Central, and Ife South by an 8,000 vote margin to Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola of the APC, while Hon. Taofeeq Abimbola Ajilesoro won his re-election, defeating the current APC Deputy Governorship Candidate, Aare Benjamin Adereti, by a narrow margin of 1,200 votes.

In fact, the hatred toward Governor Adeleke among Ife people in the 2022 election nearly consumed Ajilesoro in 2023. Thanks to the Ife Traditional Rulers and Elders who delivered the Pride of Source, Hon. Taofeeq Abimbola Ajilesoro, and he survived, assuming the Ooni’s Palace did not interfere, the unfortunate campaigns of anti-Adeleke being an Oyo Man would have swept Ajilesoro away in 2023.

In 2022, Governor Adeleke garnered less than 40,000 votes across Ife land, while Ajilesoro won his election with 52,000 votes.

Adeleke of PDP LOST Ife land in 2018
Ajilesoro of PDP WON Ife land in 2019
Adeleke of PDP LOST Ife land in 2022
Ajilesoro of PDP WON Ife land in 2023

But to one accidental politician like Pelumi Olajengbesi, it is Ajilesoro, who has consistently won back-to-back elections to the National Assembly, who was relying on the influence of Adeleke, someone who has been rejected twice in Ife land. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ajilesoro’s electoral record is clear with Ife people’s discontent with Governor Adeleke. It shows that it was Adeleke they rejected in both 2018 and 2022, not the defunt PDP, because it was the same platform that Governor Ademola Adeleke used and failed that Ajilesoro used and won.

Why can’t Hon. Idowu Adeyeni , Hon Yode, and Adediwura Olabode not use the same Adeleke influence to win their elections across Ife land, if indeed Ajilesoro rode on Adeleke’s influence to victory? Or is the influence only available to Mhr Otunba Abimbola Ajilesoro alone? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

If Pelumi Olajengbesi is genuinely looking for those who used Adeleke’s influence to win their elections, He should direct his nearly exhausted energy toward Sen. Lere Oyewumi, Hon. Akanni Olorunwa, Hon. Bamidele Salam, Maruf Adebayo Gangaria, Speaker Wale Egbedun, Yode Oyeyode, and at least 80% of those Osun State Assembly members who lost their elections in 2019, who were given tickets and lost but won in 2023. Those are the set of people who, without Adeleke as Governor, would not have won their elections in Osun State.

Hon. Taofeeq Abimbola Ajilesoro (Pride of the Source) stands tall and is ready to go beyond 2027.

Excellency Mayowa Amotekun I, is an Historian, Researcher, Explorer, Farmer, Plumber, Cultural Ambassador, and Priest.