Osun Election: Why SDP candidate couldn’t defeat Adeleke – Gombe

National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Prof. Abubakar Sadiq Gombe, has explained wherefore the party’s governorship campaigner successful Osun State, Mr Francis Ajala, could not decision the incumbent, Ademola Adeleke, who emerged winner of Saturday’s election.

Gombe, speaking to journalists connected Monday, said Osun voters thought Ajala would not enactment successful the poll.

He noted that the Court of Appeal judgement clearing Ajala came hardly a time earlier the poll, which enactment him astatine a disadvantage during the just-concluded Osun State election.

According to him, the party’s abysmal show successful Osun does not bespeak that it lacks a enactment base.

Gombe further said that 1 of the lessons learned from the Osun canvass is that determination is nary tiny party, adding that it is simply a informing to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC up of the 2027 wide elections.

He added that, conscionable similar Osun people, Nigerian voters person a important relation to play successful rescuing the state from the hands of the APC.

“SDP’s abysmal performance. It is arsenic though SDP did not enactment due to the fact that until past Wednesday,...