APC’s woeful outing in Ajimobi’s
expected stronghold has prompted
protests from party leaders, with Bola
Tinubu, the National leader, now
personally overseeing the campaigns in
a desperate bid to prevent a potential
surrendering of the governorship to
the PDP.
Abiola Ajimobi, the outgoing
Governor of Oyo State, can no
longer attend governorship
campaign events of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the
state, SaharaReporters understands.
Ajimobi lost his Oyo South
Senatorial District bid to Dr. Kola
Balogun of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), who polled 105,720
votes to Ajimobi’s 92,579 votes,
meanwhile the other two senatorial
slots were won by the APC. To
worsen matters, of the five federal
constituencies in Ajimobi’s Oyo
South, APC won only one, while PDP
has already won three and is set to
claim the fourth when the election is
concluded this weekend.
APC’s woeful outing in Ajimobi’s
expected stronghold has prompted
protests from party leaders, with
Bola Tinubu, the National leader,
now personally overseeing the
campaigns in a desperate bid to
prevent a potential surrendering of
the governorship to the PDP.
And one of what Tinubu has quickly
done, apart from buying off
Adebayo Alao-Akala’s candidature,
is to ban Ajimobi from showing up
at APC governorship campaign
meetings involving Bayo Adelabu,
the party’s candidate.
“The belief of Tinubu and other
APC leaders is that it is Ajimobi
that the people are angry with —
not APC — therefore he should
stay away from campaign
activities,” an APC source very
familiar with the development told
SaharaReporters.
“The fear is that Ajimobi’s
appearance at Adelabu’s campaign
rallies will be damaging for the
party. In fact, there is a jingle of
the party begging the people,
explaining that Ajimobi, not the
party, is the fall guy. Since the
presidential and national assembly
elections, Adelabu has been
campaigning on his own —
without the Governor’s
involvement.”
In the said jingle, listened to by
SaharaReporters, APC “begged” all
indigenes of the state in the name of
God and in the names of prominent
Yoruba sons such as Vice President
Yemi Osinbajo, former Governor Bisi
Akande and Tinubu.
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