Director-general of Peter Obi presidential campaign organisation Doyin Okupe on Tuesday stated lessons he drew out from the Ekiti governorship election held last Saturday.
According to the Independent National Electoral Commission, Biodun Oyebanji of the All Progressives Congress won the election with 187, 057 votes. Segun Oni of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) scored 82, 211 votes to come second. Bisi Kolawole of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 67,457 votes on third position.
Since Mr Obi joined the Labour Party, the former governor has been faced with concerns that the party might not possess the structures needed to win a presidential election.
Commenting on this and the Ekiti election, Okupe tweeted, “The Ekiti elections have come and gone. It has also been won and lost. But surprisingly, a single man, Segun Oni, joined a very little known political party, the SDP, in less than 6 months, with meager financial resources, defeated the Almighty PDP; with its established long existing & wide spread political ‘structure’, to come 2nd in the elections.
“If it was a state wide general elections, the SDP would have won some House of Assembly seats.”
The former presidential spokesman noted that the lesson is that it is the people driven by their belief and commitment that constitute reliable political structure.
“The Labour Party and the massive @PeterObi movement in Nigeria today will make a mince meat of the established political structures of both the @OfficialAPCNg and @OfficialPDPNig in the fullness of time,” he said.
