The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the party lost Presidential and Governorship election in some key states controlled by it including Oyo because the party and government controlled by it gave every Nigerian the opportunity to contest election freely without interference in the electoral process.
The Party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa Onilu stated this over the weekend that it was unheard that the ruling party lost election in states controlled by it.
Recall that the APC lost the governorship elections in Imo, Adamawa, Bauchi and Oyo states, four states controlled by APC governors, while losing the Presidential election in Oyo, Ondo and Edo states.
“You have seen major politicians in this country, big politicians in this country losing election in this country even in our own party. You saw a serving governor in Oyo State who couldn’t win one-third of the State. A governor who is governing the entire State couldn’t win one-third of the entire State to get to the Senate.
“You could see that we lost Oyo in presidential election where we have a sitting governor. We lost Ondo where we have a sitting governor. But because we didn’t want to condone impunity, we did all we did in Imo in a way to undermine ourselves. The choice we had was to either to accept what would have amounted to the impunity, so that we could win Imo ordo the right thing. But we said no, we would rather do what is decent.”
