The African Democratic Congress (ADC) claimed it has uncovered an alleged grand plot by the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to manipulate the forthcoming governorship election through fraudulent voter registration practices.

“Reports reaching the Omoluabi Progressives reveal that APC is deliberately registering people from neighbouring states—Oyo, Ondo, and even Lagos—into the Osun voters’ register,” a statement issued on Friday by Abosede Oluwaseun, Publicity and Organising Secretary of Omoluabi Progressives, a caucus in the ADC, alleged.

It added, “These individuals are being encouraged to undertake multiple registrations, aided by compromised officials within INEC. Where this proves difficult, APC operatives are allegedly transferring the voter cards of their party faithful from other states into Osun, simply because the Osun governorship election is a crucial stand-off contest.”

“This is condemnable. It is a sophisticated attempt at rigging and a direct assault on the will of the good people of Osun State,” he further said.

Oluwaseun said, “It is no surprise, therefore, that INEC dubiously proclaimed that 393,269 new registrations were recorded in Osun within just eight days of the registration exercise,” adding “such inflated figures raise serious questions and confirm APC’s “win at all cost” mindset under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu—a government already notorious for anti-people policies that have driven Nigerians into deeper poverty and despair.”

He noted that the alleged desperate manoeuvres come at a time when Nigerians are already enduring the APC’s weak social services, harsh economic hardship, rampant insecurity, threats to democracy, and fiscal instability under the APC-led administration.

He, therefore, called on Osun residents to “remain vigilant, resist these manipulations, and defend their right to free and fair elections.”

“Osun must not be a testing ground for electoral fraud. We urge our citizens to reject and vote against APC in the August 8, 2026, gubernatorial election,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Osun State, Mutiu Agboke, while addressing journalists, denied any malpractice in the ongoing voter registration.