It’s a straight fight between Jackson and AMBO, by Rotimi Fasan
The so-called off-cycle governorship election slated for August 15 in Osun State is billed to be a straight fight between the incumbent governor, the ever-ebullient, happy-go-lucky Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke, and a former finance commissioner in the cabinet of Adeleke’s predecessor, Asiwaju Bola Munirudeen Oyebamiji, popularly called AMBO.
His real problem is Gboyega Oyetola who, apart from his support of the APC candidate and being the one who succeeded him against his will and then proceeded to roll back some of his odd policies, is above all a nephew of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his former benefactor and present political enemy.
Remi Abass, the local government chair in Ikire in February 2025, indeed the seizure of the Osun State local government funds amid the battle to control the local governments, is a fallout of the contest over who would control the state ahead of the election in August.
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