Nigeria, Aug. 20 -- I watched Ademola Adeleke's interview with Seun Okinbaloye on Channels TV on Sunday, where he reflected on his victory at the Osun State gubernatorial election which held on Saturday August 15. In what turned out to be a two-horse race, Adeleke, the state governor, polled a total of 511,067 votes to defeat his closest rival, Bola Oyebamiji of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who polled 444,815 votes to secure a second term of four years in office.

Osun State became a "theatre of war" amid rising political tensions in what Azu Ishiekwene, Editor-in-Chief of Leadership newspaper, described as the outcome of a "perfect grudge match" between Adeleke and Adegboyega Oyetola, Minister of Marine and Blue Economy and forme...