Breaking the norms, Adenoma Adeleke from the osun west senatorial District, precisely Ede, emerged as the governor-elect of the state after decades of marginalisation- the baton of governorship has often been exchanged between two main senatorial districts;osun central and osun East.
With 375,027 votes, Governor Gboyega oyetola of the ruling all progressives Congress, APC suffered a defeat from the candidate of the main opposition’s people’s Democracy Party, PDP Ademola Adeleke, who polled 403,371 votes.
The reigning governor failed to win the popular vote, it’s a monumental blow for the ruling APC and the candidate but where did it all go wrong for oyetola?
In many ways oyetola prepare the stage for his own loss,He made some critical mistakes that patched the people, supporters, and particularly his predecessor, former Governor Rauf Aregbesola against him and led them to align with the mission of opposition. Here is where it all went wrong:
Unresolved acrimony with Aregbesola
The downfall of oyetola was extremely due to unending hostility between him and his former boss. Oyetola was Aregbesola’s chief of staff.
The basis of their crisis was over Aregbesola’s preferred candidate, Moshood Adeoti,who is the former secretary of the state government.
Aregbesola who was not pleased with the candidacy of Oyetola is said to have been forced to work for oyetola, who has the full support of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Against this background Aregbesola has been been intensely embittered. The minister of interior and his large supporters secretly and openly campaigned against Oyetola’s reelection.
