Saturday July 16, 2022, loss of the Osun governorship election by the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party was long in coming. It will take naivety or dishonesty or both not to acknowledge this.
It was an election the APC could have won hands down for many reasons. The first is the national weakening of the PDP. The party, having been alienated from power since 2015 and having no coherent leadership, is grossly and hopelessly adrift. It is no longer in a position to rally its members and command resources; many of its havens already crossed to the APC or Peter Obi’s Labour Party.
The third factor was the quality of the PDP candidate. Adeleke is a scion of the Adeleke dynasty in Ede. Their father, Ayoola Adeleke, was Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s ally and a Second Republic senator. Isiaka Adeleke, Demola’s brother, was the Third Republic and Osun’s first democratically elected governor and serving senator before his death on April 23, 2017. Demola brought nothing, other than his gawdy dance steps and unending controversy on his educational qualification.
On a good day, it would have been impossible for the PDP to have won against the APC, given these factors. The first is the crisis that began shortly after the inauguration of Governor Oyetola in 2018. He probably felt he was his own man and wanted to assert his bona fide on the state and its politics. But he forgot that he became governor ex nihilo and his emergence as the candidate of APC was a result of the influence of Asiwaju, which almost cost the party the election.
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