A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has announced his intention to contest the 2026 governorship election in Osun State under the platform of the APC. Omisore, a former deputy governor of the state, made the declaration in a post on his X handle on Saturday, fixing the date for the formal announcement. He said it would take place on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at the Osun State APC Secretariat in Ogo-Oluwa, Osogbo. Also ReadOmisore, who served as deputy governor of Osun between 1999 and 2003 under the Alliance for Democracy, later became a senator representing Osun East from 2003 to 2011. He contested the 2014 Osun governorship election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party but lost to the then-incumbent governor, Rauf Aregbesola.