{"id":204608,"date":"2022-07-19T20:20:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=204608"},"modified":"2022-07-19T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:20:31","slug":"why-we-lost-osun-election-apc-chair-adamu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/19\/why-we-lost-osun-election-apc-chair-adamu\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we lost Osun election \u2013 APC chair, Adamu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Adamu, has given reasons why the party lost the Osun State governorship election on July 16.<\/p>\n<p>Adamu said the crisis within the APC led to the loss, and not that the party was not capable of winning.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed this in an interview with BBC Hausa on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>WITHIN NIGERIA reports that the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/17\/breaking-pdps-adeleke-wins-osun-governorship-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ademola Adeleke won the election<\/a> after polling a total of 403,371 votes beating the incumbent, Adegboyega Oyetola of the APC who got 375,027 votes in a keenly contested race.<\/p>\n<p>Giving the reason, Adamu said, \u201cWe lost the race not because we are incapable but because of the crisis within. We had a massive gathering of supporters a few days before the election in Osogbo. No one could ever anticipate that we would lose the election.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that it was a tradition of life to lose something that was really needed by someone, noting that the party agreed to the defeat in good faith and learnt from it.<\/p>\n<p>He was very hopeful that the party would however win in the forthcoming 2023 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Adamu added, \u201cOsun defeat doesn\u2019t in any way mean that we will lose at the general election. We only lost one state out of the 22 we have; you see, we are still strong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will sit and check ourselves. We must ask ourselves what is right and wrong and what needs to be corrected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Adamu, has given reasons why the party lost the Osun State governorship election on July 16. 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