Opinion: Has APC Lost the People’s Goodwill In Oyo State?, By Keni Akintoye
The question party leaders would be asking themselves now is how did we get here? How did APC lose its goodwill in Oyo State? In 2018, when the governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, made his intention to return for the Senate known, many wondered if he had any idea how risky that would be for his party.
Many say the governor had begun to overrate his own popularity and his political clout due to his ability to break the second term jinx in 2015. Here was the problem. Soji Akanbi had succeeded in winning the hearts of thousands of Ibadan people with his performance in the red chamber and his closeness to the grassroots. A senator who would comfortably sit at a vendors’ stand and relate with the people should never be underrated but Governor Ajimobi and the APC didn’t get the memo on that.
But Senator Adesoji Akanbi would not be bullied by the governor. He went into the race on the platform of African Democratic Congress . Despite the Atiku wave, the PDP would have needed about 36,296 votes to match APC if they had not discarded Akanbi. Akanbi’s refusal to chicken out of the battle with Ajimobi just validated the chieftaincy title conferred on him by the Olubadan as the Okanlomo of Ibadanland. Okanlomo means “the rare son” to whom they are now grateful.
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