We Lost Oyo 2019 Due To Overconfidence, Electoral Fraud―APC Party Chairmen

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the March 9, 2019 governorship election, Engr Seyi Makinde,  defeated his All Progressives Congress, APC, counterpart, Oloye Adebayo Adelabu due to what the party’s local government chairmen described as “a combination of overconfidence on the part of members and leaders, relying on the popularity of the party and its candidate, as well as electoral fraud and multiple votings that caused our loss.”

During a courtesy call on Adelabu at his Bayo Adelabu Foundation office at Jericho yesterday, the visitors discussed ways by which unity can be fostered within the party.

The party’s chairman in Lagelu local government,  Alhaji Raimi Zaria, appreciated the superb efforts of the party as a whole during the electioneering campaign.

He then pleaded with Adelabu to continue his good work in uniting the party and take a good grip of the party structure like he has been known to constantly do.

 

He went a step further to solicit on behalf of his colleagues for Adelabu’s appointment as a Minister of Finance in the next dispensation of the APC government.

 

He maintained that Adelabu is most suited for the office of the Minister as he is in pole position for the leadership of the party and also as a minister, he will be in the best position to finance the party and build the strongest footsoldiers to win the battle in 2023.

 

Corroborating Raimi, his Ibadan South West counterpart, Mr Aderemi Oni, also highlighted the need for crises management and proper handling of rancour within the party.

 

He said Adelabu who is now a leader in the party should also surround himself with people who are politically savvy and who are in tunes with the intrigues in politics.

 

Adelabu, while speaking,  thanked them graciously for their kind gesture in coming to pay a courtesy visit to him in his office.

 

Saying that it was in his plan to invite the leaders for a meeting “but at the best appropriate time, thanking them also for having stayed with him since the party primaries into the general election and though the results did not go as planned, he appreciates their efforts nonetheless.

He also used the medium to tell the party that he is not going anywhere.