President Bola Tinubu yesterday left Stanley Osifo in the dust at the All Progressives Congress presidential primaries. Numbers don’t lie. Tinubu took 92 percent of delegate votes. Osifo’s campaign collapsed before the first ballot was counted. The exercise was pure political theater—designed to prove Tinubu’s dominance.
Osifo never had a real shot. His team couldn’t secure more than a handful of state delegates. Tinubu’s control of the party machinery made the outcome inevitable. The real question was never who would win. It was how badly Osifo would lose. The answer came fast. Brutally fast.
Osifo’s team is crying foul. They’re preparing court papers. They’ll claim delegate accreditation was rigged. They’ll demand vote records. The courts won’t save them. Tinubu’s strategists are already moving on. The general election is the only fight that matters now.
Internal divisions won’t disappear. Vice President Kashim Shettima and Senate President Godswill Akpabio will demand their cut. Tinubu must decide whether to reward them or freeze them out. The Peoples Democratic Party is watching. Waiting. Ready to exploit any misstep.
The PDP is already circling.
