A fight to the finish in Osun, by Rotimi Fasan

President Bola Tinubu had up to the last couple of weeks assumed what would seem a neutral position in who becomes the next governor of the State of the Living Spring between the two leading contenders, the incumbent Ademola Adeleke, and the APC candidate, Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji, aka AMBO, the former finance commissioner in the administration of Governor Gboyega Oyetola, the former chief of staff in the Rauf Aregbesola administration that I had in my earlier intervention on this subject erroneously referred to as a former deputy governor.

While the Accord Party influence is limited to what Governor Adeleke and his family have to mobilise, including the star power of the governor’s nephew, Davido, a leading afrobeats musician who occasionally puts his foot in his mouth, the APC has brought the full weight of the party’s leadership machinery across the country to bear on the election with incumbent and former governors and leaders of the party trooping into Osogbo to give their support to their candidate.

In concluding my piece here two weeks ago on the Osun State governorship election that is scheduled to hold on Saturday this week, I had suggested that Governor Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke had successfully skirted around the political landmine represented by the federal might that could have been deployed against him to threaten his chances in the election by President Bola Tinubu.