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National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Ajibola Bashiru says the Osun State chapter of the party will back President Bola Tinubu’s preferred candidate for the Osun governorship election.

There are speculations that Governor Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has Tinubu’s backing for the gubernatorial election.

DAILY POST reports that some aggrieved members of the APC in Osun State had argued that Tinubu’s open show of support for the incumbent governor could jeopardise the chances of the party’s candidate in the governorship election.

However, speaking on Wednesday during an interactive session with the leadership of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Ajibola said Tinubu’s decision is final.

He said, “Whatever President Tinubu says on issues of Osun stands. We can afford to follow the President blindfoldedly.

“He takes decisions from the position of wisdom and the position of what will advance the larger interest of the progressives.”

Ajibola lauded the present administration, stating that Nigerians, particularly members of the ruling party, have confidence in President Tinubu’s policies.

TimeManager:
Tinubu has the final say, the yam and knife is on his table....

christejames:
The kind of APC democracy being led by the baron Tinubu

israelmao:
Babe dope politics of Emilokan.This is not democracy but dictatorship; politics that revolves around an individual nd not collective choice.

miracle002:
So it is the president that determines who runs for a governor or not. What a very big shame

Moblux:
See democrats see progressives tuhe! Nigerian democracy is sinking in the hands of the prentencious democrat, shior !

Racoon:
For God's sake is this participatory democracy? Does a presidential endorsement automatically means a win for a candidate. No rationality or objectivity? What role does the electorate play in the democratic setting?

AMINDA:
This is what they want. To bring the Baba sopé style of politics to the national level, the Lamidi Adedibu kind of amala politics. Tinubu will not succeed in privatising Nigeria as he has done to APC making it a regional party. That can only happen in Lagos.

christejames:
The kind of APC democracy being led by the baron Tinubu

Racoon:
For God's sake is this participatory democracy? Does a presidential endorsement automatically means a win for a candidate. No rationality or objectivity? What role does the electorate play in the democratic setting?

Racoon:
For God's sake is this participatory democracy? Does a presidential endorsement automatically means a win for a candidate. No rationality or objectivity? What role does the electorate play in the democratic setting?

TimeManager:
Tinubu has the final say, the yam and knife is on his table. Adeleke has made so much enmity for himself that only Tinubu can save him. That's why Davido quickly realized that noisemaking, running mouth on Twitter and braggadocio on social media is completely different from reality, politics and Governance. For a Governor to be running around and begging to decamp, the matter don pass be careful.


-Kiss the truth!

damkin24:
But you want ADC to present their ticket to Obi without primaries

Racoon:
For God's sake is this participatory democracy? Does a presidential endorsement automatically means a win for a candidate. No rationality or objectivity? What role does the electorate play in the democratic setting?