Osun poll wake-up call for Northern voters – Mahdi Shehu

Public affairs commentator Mahdi Shehu has described the caller Osun State governorship predetermination arsenic a wake-up telephone for Northern voters and different Nigerians whom helium believes person go passive successful exercising their voting rights.

In a station shared connected X connected Monday, Shehu argued that the predetermination demonstrated however determined voters tin defy governmental pressure, contempt the resources and power of those successful power.

According to him, the All Progressives Congress (APC) entered the predetermination with the afloat vantage of incumbency and deployed important quality and worldly resources successful an effort to win.

“APC, its state, section and national mights were not successful Osun to suffer elections but to beryllium their supremacy and instrumentality vantage of their incumbency astatine the national level,” helium wrote.

He claimed that the enactment near thing to accidental but said voters remained focused connected what they wanted and refused to beryllium influenced by inducements, intimidation oregon last-minute promises.

“They met a heavy partition erected by voters who had defined what they wanted and thing abbreviated of it, nary substance the inducement, intimidation and afterthought last-minute bare promises,” helium said.

Shehu besides argued that if akin efforts had been directed astatine voters successful parts of Northern Nigeria and the South-East, the result could person been different.

He alleged that galore Northern voters are ofte...