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So far, the 2023 presidential election has proved to be a lofty box of intriguing surprises for candidates and stakeholders, leaving many sleepless and jerking them to make a reassessment of their strategies. The Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, an engineer, is topmost among those whose political positions are threatened as the country prepares for […]
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So far, the 2023 presidential election has proved to be a lofty box of intriguing surprises for candidates and stakeholders, leaving many sleepless and jerking them to make a reassessment of their strategies.
The Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, an engineer, is topmost among those whose political positions are threatened as the country prepares for the March 11 governorship and state assembly elections.
Coalition forces still on the menu
Governor Makinde, who is seeking to return to the Agodi Government House in Ibadan, is presently facing the arduous task of navigating through the possibility of coalition plans amongst his opponents, such as Teslim Folarin of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bayo Adelabu of Accord Party (AP), Olukayode Popoola of the New nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and others. Indeed, coalition is not an impossibility because pundits are already touting the idea ahead of the next elections.
Like the previous elections, especially in 2011 and 2019, the 2023 exercise also promises to be a semblance of what played out in those years when a coalition of political parties and strange bed fellows amongst politicians coalesced structures to wrest power from incumbents. Those affected by this development were the late Adebayo Alao-Akala of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who lost reelection as a sitting governor, and the late Abiola Ajimobi, who was the first governor to rule the state twice but failed in his bid to install Adelabu as successor in 2011 and 2019 respectively.
Ultimately, the threat of an alliance between other contestants may be heightened as Folarin is already consolidating on his party’s success at the just concluded polls. In his congratulatory address to the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Folarin encouraged Oyo residents to replicate the February 25th feat during the governorship election, saying, “It is indeed going to be a new dawn for us in Oyo State. A government of the APC at the centre led by Asiwaju Bola Bola Tinubu and Oyo State under the party led by me is the best as this would give us the much desired greater state.”