EDITORIAL: Osun election, the rise of civic action, and 2027
An off-cycle poll in one state cannot be equated with a general election across several elective offices and for the president in 36 states of the country.
A week to the election, the governor had accused the state’s Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Gotan, of partisanship, with the operation of a parallel police structure, targeted at opponents of the APC, making Mr Adeleke openly call on the president to redeploy him.
The election had initially put some political pressure on President Bola Tinubu due to the action of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in freezing the bank accounts of the Osun State government, due to its declared concerns around the suspicious movement of public funds.
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