Ahead of the February 19 primary election, a governorship aspirant and a former Secretary to the Osun State Government, Mr. Moshood Adeoti, has said that Governor Gboyega Oyetola was installed by the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, whom he described as an emperor.

He stated this Thursday in Abuja after he was screened at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja.

Other aspirants screened by the screening committee included Oyetola and the former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Lasun Yusuff.

He stated: “We had prepared between 75-80 percent for the primary before it was scuttled at the eleventh hour. Ekiti state primary was conducted based on direct, but when it came to Osun, they changed it to indirect on the instruction of the emperor who happens to be the leader of the party.

“He insisted that his cousin must be the governor. The person I’m talking about is Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, he said if his cousin was not returned he would not finance the election.

Adeoti stressed that in 2018, everyone agreed that it was the turn of Osun West Senatorial District to produce the governor.

The governorship hopeful said before 2018, Osun Central had Chief Bisi Akande and Olagunsoye Oyinlola between 1999 to 2010 before was ousted by the courts and Rauf Aregbesola from Osun East was sworn-in 2010, and eventually spent eight years.

Adeoti stressed that the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke from Osun West was in the saddle for 20 months as the first democratically elected governor, saying since then, there had been clamour that it is the turn of Osun West.

Adeoti said, “Let me add that we have just submitted our petition to the caretaker committee on two grounds: first, the date of the gubernatorial primary has been changed from 5th of March to 19th of February without any reason. In Ekiti state, it was extended from 17th of January to 27th but in our case they are bringing it back by two weeks preceding the national convention.

“Secondly, up till today governor Gboyega Oyetola is still a member of the CECPC led by Governor Mai Mala Buni. I don’t see how the primary will be free and fair if Oyetola is a judge in his own case.”

omenkaLives:
In all states, people install people. The reason a politician complains is simply because they're not getting fed by the person installed.

Godfathers exist wherever politicians exist. We've gone past this level of sentimentality mr man.

Next.

omenkaLives:
In all states, people install people. The reason a politician complains is simply because they're not getting fed by the person installed.

Godfathers exist wherever politicians exist. We've gone past this level of sentimentality mr man.

Next.

omenkaLives:
In all states, people install people. The reason a politician complains is simply because they're not getting fed by the person installed.

Godfathers exist wherever politicians exist. We've gone past this level of sentimentality mr man.

Next.

Oduduwa707:


ONLY in a corrupt -ridden society like Nigeria.

RolexOfGeneva:

Lie. Godfatherism has been destroyed in some states. It is one of the vices that needs to be flushed out from our political life if we want to grow as a Country.

omenkaLives:
Funny, really funny.

I those states you talk about, the leaders themselves are godfathers, doing all they can to install their gonsons or daughters in positions of power.

Godfathers only change, they cant be gone forever. The godfather factor in politics is just like matter in nature- it cant be destroyed but can only change from one form (person) to another.

omenkaLives:
You are extremely naive to think so. The reason why you think it exists only here is because they hardly hide themselves here.

In the industrialized world and advanced democracies, the godfathers hardly show themselves in public. They mostly comprise ex presidents, aged owners of big business, especially those in defence business, ex spy chiefs, ex defence chiefs, ex finance chiefs, etc. They're the puppet masters.

They're there and are the men who pull the actual strings in government. You only think they're not because they dont openly interfere in politics as ours.

omenkaLives:
You are extremely naive to think so. The reason why you think it exists only here is because they hardly hide themselves here.

In the industrialized world and advanced democracies, the godfathers hardly show themselves in public. They mostly comprise ex presidents, aged owners of big business, especially those in defence business, ex spy chiefs, ex defence chiefs, ex finance chiefs, etc. They're the puppet masters.

They're there and are the men who pull the actual strings in government. You only think they're not because they dont openly interfere in politics as ours.

Oduduwa707:


Sir, in developed nations, their idea of 'god-fatherism' isn't as primitive and evil like it's done here in Nigeria. It's all about having popular support and massive influence within the party filled with sane minds NOT murderous, illiterate, ignorant bastards that feeds fat on the back of the porr and suffering masses.

In developed nations, the citizens worry less about politics. I can tell you that. The system and process is very efficient and effective. There's GENUINE rule of law, transparency and independent Judiciary NOT in a jungle like Nigeria.

If Nigeria's system works, why do 98% of the Politicians and leadership migrate their own families abroad for better living? But, do I really blame them? No. I blame the gullible and foolish Nigerians that offer support to them.

Mordecai:


Pray, tell me, who is godfather in Anambra?

Mordecai:


Pray, tell me, who is godfather in Anambra?