FACEOFF WITH AREGBESOLA COST OYETOLA RE-ELECTION – MINISTER’S FACTION
July 18, 2022
Members of the Osun state all progressives congress loyal to the minister of interior, Rauf Aregbesola, have said the state governor, Gboyega Oyetola’s fight with them cost him his re-election.
The independent national electoral commission had on Sunday declared Ademola Adeleke of the People’s Democratic Party the winner of Saturday’s governorship election in the state.
The returning officer for the election and vice chancellor of the University of Lagos, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, said Adeleke got a total of 403,371 votes to beat the incumbent governor who polled 375,027 votes in the keenly contested race.
Shortly after winning the election, Oyetola, who was the chief of staff to Aregbesola for eight years, parted ways with the interior affairs minister and his loyalists, who alleged that the governor abandoned his predecessor’s programmes.