It is in rare cases that a sitting governor or a sitting political office holder will lose a reelection bid in Nigeria. It is more shocking to know that the sitting governor of Osun state is a member of the political party occupying the federal government.
The power of incumbency and the federal might was not able to deliver the re-election bid of Governor Oyetola Adegboyega as he lost the Osun state governor election which would have ushered him into his second term in office to his PDP counterpart, Senator Ademola Adeleke. This points to the fact that power belongs to the people and anybody placed on a political seat is placed there by the mandate of the people and the people can decide to snatch back the power whenever they want or whenever they are no longer pleased with the occupier of the office.
What happened in Osun state yesterday is a wake-up call for every current/ sitting politically elected office holder in Nigeria who have the desire to get reelected back to power, to bear in mind that he or she is on that seat of power through the mandate of the electorates and they can decide to take it back from the occupier whenever they want to. Sitting governors who are currently serving their first terms, sitting legislatures; both state and federal legislators who desire to be re-elected back into their seats should all bear in mind that the Nigerian electorates are tired of re-electing and recycling bad leaders, they desire positive change, especially the youth want to elect those who they are sure will be subjected to the electorate and those who they can always be called to order.
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The power of incumbency or the federal might will no longer be the order of the day in Nigeria. Vote buying and intimidation of voters will no longer outshine democracy and free and fair elections in Nigeria. Nigerians have had enough and they are ready to take their destinies into their hands.
It is highly commendable that electorates and voters in Osun state were openly rejecting money offered to them by party agents to buy their votes and they categorically said no to “vote buying”, those who came out to vote stood their ground against rigging and intimidation.
It will keep getting better and Nigeria will attain Eureka in our time.
