Trouble For Rotimi Makinde As Finger Pointing Over Aregbesola’s Candidate, Mudashiru Hussein’s Election Loss Begins

The blame game is on.

And finger pointing has started over who is culpable in the electoral loss suffered by Mudashiru Hussein, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Saturday’s Osun West Senatorial bye election.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola gave his all to make Mudashiru the party’s flag bearer.

The Osun governor also personally headed the candidate’s campaign.

But the party still suffered a shameful defeat in the hands of Demola Adeleke, the man forced out of APC to become the candidate of opposition party People’s Democratic Party.

Demola, the younger brother of the deceased holder of the senatorial seat at stake polled 97,480 votes to beat Mudashiru Hussein who got 66,116 votes.

And as reality of the defeat sets in, party administrators and APC supporters have started looking for a scape goat.

And former House of Representatives member Rotimi Makinde’s name appears the most bandied.

He is accused of causing disaffection rather than mobilising party men and supporters to vote for defeated Mudashiru when campaign was on.

The chief evidence against him is a trending video where he was specially “rude” to Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Yusuf Lasun and his train of supporters.

In the video, which gained a lots of traction before and during election, Makinde was seen threatening to slap Lasun’s aide and daring the House of Representatives Deputy Speaker to go away from the campaign which held in Iwo– that he wasn’t needed.

It took the intervention of Governor Aregbesola to calm the angered Lasun to be a part of the event.

Supporters and sympathisers of Lasun were said to be unhappy with what befell their principal, and opposition party PDP were said to have turned the leaked video into a campaign tool of division within the camp of APC.

APC party members and supporters are currently using the video as evidence Makinde alienated supporters and sympathisers rather than rally them for the election – and labelling him one of the chief contributors to the shameful defeat.

The political consequence of this development for the former movie maker who lost bid to retain his seat as a Federal House of Representatives member remains to be seen.

But insiders insist “there will naturally be a repercussion… if they had won, it would have been another thing but his party losing such a vital election and having such an evidence against him? I doubt it would be swept under the carpet like that…it may not be an open sanction, but directly or indirectly a sanction looms for him.”