Can The Gift Of Free Beans Sway The Minds Of Osun Voters ?

July 14, 2022 Greg Abolo

The Oasis Reporters

July 12, 2022

*Ademola Nurudeen Adeleke was looking up to Peter Obi before the advent of Labour Party.*

Pundits generally agree that many riding factors are going to surround the Osun State gubernatorial election coming up in the next few days.

While the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate, state governor Gboyega Oyetola seems to be sitting pretty confidently, the opposition party People’s Democratic Party (PDP) that was on the confidence train just four years ago when it actually won the election but lost it at the Supreme Court due to certain technicalities that were outside of it’s control, does not seem to in top form now.

*Adegboyega Oyetola (left), Ademola Adeleke.. to lock horns again in a gubernatorial election rematch on July 16. Judgement of Osun people is eagerly awaited .*

Party big wigs are foot dragging and external events like the departure of Peter Obi to the Labour Party at the national level seems to have upset strategies.

Worse still is the absence of the PDP presidential candidate’s morale boosting visit that is dampening issues in Osogbo, the state capital.

*Beans, branded in the name of Oyetola are being distributed in the tradition of voter inducement. This may have orchestrated by the supporters of the state governor, at least on the surface.*

Seyi Makinde is commisioning new projects, Oyetola is sharing beans and coke.
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The PDP who many believe should come in as change is suffering from the “no shishi giving” domino effect of the Peter Obi blaze across the national political landscape.

But Osun is state with fertile land, yet people are hungry.

Would they thus accept token inducements to vote like another bottom state on the South West prosperity index scale, Ekiti did, or rise and say no ?

*Moremi statue, Ile-Ife, Osun State.*
*The Oasis Reporters photo.*

Osun is today at a crossroads. To reject the paltry inducements and vote their conscience, or accept it and vote for continuity that hasn’t taken them to the desired Eldorado ?

The ethical dilemma facing the valiant people of Osun State will help write the election results, and in this, neither Oyetola nor Adeleke has the final say.

The Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC is also at the other hand of the equation. Osun people and it’s watchers may have to utter the Yoruba word, ‘Kashimawo‘, loosely meaning, ‘lets wait and see’.