Osun: APC’s defeat not Adeleke’s trade-off for supporting Tinubu – Hakeem Baba-Ahmed

Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, a former political adviser to President Bola Tinubu, has insisted that the All Progressives Congress, APC, defeat in Osun State is not a trade-off for Governor Ademola Adeleke’s support for President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 presidential election.

Adeleke won Saturday’s keenly contested governorship election after polling 511,067 votes.

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The APC’s governorship candidate, Bola Oyebamiji, came second with a total of 444,815 votes, while Najeem Salaam of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) came a distant third with 17,180 votes.

Prior to the election, Adeleke and his Accord Party endorsed Tinubu as their presidential candidate for the 2027 election.

However, Baba-Ahmed insisted that the people of Osun State would reject the APC again in 2027.

Posting on X, he wrote: “I am not one of those supporting the conspiracy theory that the APC’s defeat in the Osun governorship election is a trade-off for the governor’s support for Tinubu in 2027.

“I prefer to believe Accord Party won fairly. I believe the APC can be defeated in fair elections. Osun State will reject it in 2027.

“The clumsy intervention by PBAT on EFCC/Osun State frozen funds just made everything worse. PBAT, even as a maximum president, has no power to stop EFCC’s operations.

“EFCC itself has damaged itself badly. It will be difficult not to see a good cop-bad cop game here.”