How Federal might came to Osun and met the people, by Stephanie Shaakaa
When a candidate goes into a state election surrounded by governors, ministers, senators, the leadership of the National Assembly and the full political machinery of the party controlling the federal government, voters do not see only a campaign team.
It can be communicated in a sentence as ordinary as the one APC National Secretary Ajibola Basiru delivered during the campaign, when he urged Osun voters to choose an APC governor because, he argued, the state would benefit from having a governor whose party controls the Federal Government.
Today the APC controls the Federal Government and has the machinery to deploy its national political establishment into a state contest.
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