Osun election jerked APC out of belief it has conquered Nigeria – Ologbondiyan

Former National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbondiyan says the outcome of last Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State has shattered the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s “mythical belief that it has conquered Nigeria.”
Ologbondiyan stated this in a Facebook post on Monday, a day after Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun won re-election.
The Accord Party candidate was declared winner with 511,067 votes, defeating APC candidate, Bola Oyebamiji, who polled 444,815 votes.
He said Adeleke’s re-election “burst their bubble” and proved that electoral victory goes beyond control of institutions and money.
“The victory of Governor Ademola Adeleke, as it would be said on the streets, burst their bubble.
“Before now, the only strategy in the playbook of the APC appears to be institutional take-over of the legislature, the judiciary, some wads of notes, freshly printed. The APC holds that when you have all these, you have won elections,” he claimed.

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Ologbondiyan insisted that the people of Osun countered that narrative.
“The people of Osun rose on Saturday to counter this narrative. Not just that. The people of Osun State dismantled this APC structure and provided a new thinking for Nigerians that the power to choose who governs them rests in their own will-power,” he said.
Ologbondiyan also faulted some APC stalwarts for blaming the African Democratic Congress (ADC) over the election result.
He said, “Beyond this, I have read and heard the cries of APCites over what they considered a failure of the ADC in the Osun election. This turn by the APC is amusing, laughable and self-deriding.
“APC should just go and nurse their pain of defeat and stop this finger-pointing.”

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