Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of leading online newspaper, SKYTREND NEWS, Mr Femi Adeoya has disclosed that the Saturday’s victory of Mr. Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu (SAN) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has finally demystified the political godfatherism and clout of the National Leader of the party, Mr Ahmed Bola Tinubu in the South West.

Speaking in Lagos on Monday, Mr Adeoya said the Ondo Governorship election was a test-run for the popularity of President Muhammadu Buhari especially in the forthcoming 2019 election, adding that “for leading the ruling APC to victory, the President has shown that he and his party still command influence in the South West.

Mr Rotimi Akeredolu who is a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), was on Saturday elected as the sixth executive governor of Ondo State, after scoring 244,842 votes to emerge winner of the poll, defeating 27 other candidates.

The APC candidate humiliated his closest rival in the contest, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s candidate, Mr Eyitayo Jegede, (SAN), by winning 14 out of the 18 local government areas in the state.

Jegede (SAN) of the PDP scored 150,380 while the Alliance for Democracy (AD), Chief Olusola Oke scored 126,889. Also Dr. Olu Agunloye of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) had 10,149 votes. Both Jegede and Oke won two local governments each.

Mr Akereolu had defeated Mr Olusegun Abraham, the preferred candidate of the National Leader of the APC, Bola Ahmed Tunubu, by a whopping 669 votes in the party’s primary election which held Saturday September 3rd, 2016.

Mr. Abraham, an international businessman and a one-time Chairman of Owena Motel under Governor Adefarati, scored 635 votes to place second in the race.

After Olusegun Abraham lost the primaries in September, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, had demanded the removal of the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, over what he called the latter’s “anti-democratic handling of the party affairs”.

In a statement he entitled, “Oyegun’s Ondo fraud: The violation of democracy in the APC,” released by the Tinubu Media Office back then, the party leader said the APC’s democratic credentials had been dealt a big blow by Odigie-Oyegun’s conduct, especially with his handling of the outcome of the Ondo State governorship primary.

He said the APC was a party borne out of the quest for democratic good governance, arguing that the ideology was currently under a critical threat by those who managed to be in the party but were never part of it.

SOURCE: http://skytrendnews.com/2016/11/28/akeredolus-victory-shows-tinubus-influence-waned-south-west-femi-adeoya/

FTC

Tinubu is the architect of his own misfortune....

Tinubu, with all his sagacity and political experiences, made mess of himself this time around.

Of all his mistakes in politics, the one he commited in Ondo is the worst, as far as I am concerned.

For example, Tinubu didn't need to openly call for removal of Oyegun as party's chairman just because he sensed he no longer enjoyed Oyegun's loyalty. Going to the print media to demand his resignation was one's influence taken too far.

Another error of judgment on Tinubu's part was allegedly directing Oke to decamp to AD and asking some of his SW loyalists (Aregbe, Ambode, and others) to boycott APC grand rally which the president was the convener, so to say. That is an affront and too confrontational.

Tinubu should have known that PMB is not a man who can be dominated and subdued easily. Was it not same Buhari who threatened to abandon his presidential ambition if Tinubu insisted on being his (PMB's) running mate when APC was deciding the matter?

I hope Tinubu can find a way to pacify the president because he has made too many enemies for himself. Forget what PDP and other opposition persons are saying; there is no future in opposing APC/PMB which you helped to form and put in office. It's only setbacks and regrets that await him if he does that.

Why do you think so?