Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress may be licking his wound as his candidate in the 16th July governorship election in Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola, was roundly defeated by PDP’s Ademola Adeleke, THE WITNESS reports.
Oyetola, the second-term seeking incumbent Governor of Osun polled 375, 027 votes behind the winner, Adeleke who clinched 403,371 to emerge the winner of the keenly contested election.
While Oyetola won 13 of the Local Government Areas in the state, Adeleke proved to be the stronger contender by claiming 17 of them.
But the person who has become the butt of jokes is Tinubu, the famed stalwart of South West politics. In the mega rally of the APC, he had pooh-poohed the chances of the PDP, the Labour Party and others using a derisive and acerbic tone that got not a few Nigerians disenchanted and outraged.
Tinubu had told the huge crowd that gathered at the APC rally in Osun not to mind other parties which he described as mushroom. He had said the members of the Labour Party and others would labour in vain till they die.
“Think about your children and vote accordingly, so you can see the future. Come out en masse.
“Don’t mind PDP and other mushrooms parties – parties like Labour; they will labour till they die. God will not make you labourers,” Tinubu had said.
Following the party’s defeat in Osun, members of the PDP and LP have beg to throw jabs at Tinubu saying that his party has ‘laboured’ in vain.
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In a chat with The Witness, the Co-spokesperson of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), Mark Adebayo said with the APC defeat, Osun voters had demystified Tinubu. He also said the victory of Adeleke was a resounding reaction to the APC presidential candidate who picked a fellow Muslim as his running mate in a country where two religions, Islam and Christianity are dominant.