Osun guber: APC under pressure to pick candidate from Osun West Senatorial District
- The agitation by some individuals that power must shift to Osun West Senatorial District in Osun state, is still on
- The agitation is more prominent within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)
- Many are canvassing for the nomination of a candidate by the APC from the Osun West Senatorial District
Some students from various tertiary institutions across Osun has joined the agitation by some individuals that power must shift to Osun West Senatorial District in the state, as the governorship elections draws near.
Hundreds of students and a few artisans on Friday, July 6, marched across major roads in Osogbo, the state capital, this morning to canvass for the nomination of a candidate by the APC from the Osun West Senatorial District.
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The protesters numbering hundreds gathered at the popular Freedom Park in Osogbo as early as 8am, armed with banners and placards with various inscriptions that the senatorial district had not produced a governor in the state since Nigeria returned to democratic rule in 1999.
They argued that while the Osun Central Senatorial District had occupied the governorship seat of the state for over 11 years and the Osun East Senatorial District would have occupied it for eight years at the expiration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s tenure, the Osun West remained the only senatorial district that had yet to occupy the seat.
The protesters said they were ready to massively support any political party that fields a governorship candidate from Osun West, saying any party that fields candidate from other senatorial districts apart from Osun West would suffer electoral defeat.
The coordinator of the Osun Continuity Movement who led the protest, Mr. Saheed Miftah, said the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke remained the only governor from Osun West to have ruled the state and he spent just 22 months before the military truncated the democratic process.
Miftah said: “In the interest of fairness, equity and justice Osun West Senatorial District should produce the next governor of the state.”
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Meanwhile, a chieftain of the APC in Osun state, Honourable Akindiya Amos, who is from Olaoluwa local government area of Osun West senatorial district has condemned the agitation by some individuals from his senatorial district insisting that they must produce the next governor of the state.
Akindiya, a serving commissioner in the Osun state House of Assembly Service Commission, said the argument does not hold water as power rotation is alien to the APC constitution.
He made this assertion while fielding questions from journalists on the preparation of the APC ahead of the September 22 gubernatorial election coming up this year.
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