The Tuesday meeting, which brought together party functionaries, council chairmen, commissioners, and special advisers under the banner of “stakeholders,” produced a formal declaration: Governor Abiodun is the preferred candidate of Remoland for the Ogun East Senate seat in 2027. Motions were moved and seconded. Speeches were delivered. Photographs were taken.
But almost immediately, the declaration was met with a wave of public scepticism that exposed the widening gulf between political officeholders and the voting public.
The first response was also the most succinct.