Emerging factors seem to be moderating earlier narratives on how the Osun governorship race is turning out, especially the outcome of the June 18, 2022 governorship election in Ekiti State, which was won by the candidate of All Progressives Congress , Abiodun Oyebanji.
If the electoral umpire and other transparency watchdogs go to sleep regarding vote-buying, Ekiti might just be child’s play, with APC going all out to use resources to secure second term for the incumbent. The APC also has the advantage of the federal support. The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party had said it was ready to match naira for naira and dollar for dollar, if the need be to win the race.
The crisis that divided Ekiti PDP into two when former Governor Segun Oni, angrily left the party to pick up the ticket of Social Democratic Party is also visible in the Osun chapter, where Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi also angrily left PDP to become candidate of Accord Party. It is hoped that the lessons from Ekiti should have dawned on all of them by now, that running away to form small cells only helps to diminish their capacity to win and be part of a winning party.
For instance, a former commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Kolapo Alimi, who served under Aregbesola, recently defected to PDP instead of joining the former deputy Speaker. Yussuff has not been seen organising open campaigns across the state. In fact, he doesn’t have many campaign billboards across the state and neither does he have many supporters, who are speaking for him, compared to his counterparts.
Loyalists of Aregbesola are moving to Osun PDP. Their defection followed the spate of protests that trailed the controversial State and National Assembly primaries of APC, where the Senator Abdulahi Adamu-led National Working Committee is yet to release the results of winners and losers, despite public outcry and protests by aspirants and other party members.
In the same vein, another PDP chieftain, Chief Sakariyau Oyediji recently led over 1,000 of his supporters to join Accord.
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