This was several weeks before the ballots were casted. But when the tally of votes were eventually sorted, Osun people rejected the APC resoundingly. Interestingly, Basiru could only savage a win for his party in two out of 10 local governments in Osun central senatorial district even as the incumbent senator from the district. And nine months later, Basiru failed to secure re-election into the Senate, losing in eight out of the 10 local governments that made up the district.

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