PCI Series: Osun ADP’s campaign jingles: What is in it for the electorate?




Action Democratic Party became one of the main political parties participating in the September 22 election when Alhaji Moshood Olalekan Adeoti, former Secretary to State Government, defected from the All Progressives Congress after the primary election that ensured the candidacy of Alhaji Gboyega Isiaka Oyetola.
His defection and emergence as the ADP’s candidate have led to defection of many members of the ruling party, especially the home-based politicians. As the campaign rages on, PCI has discovered that the candidacy of Alhaji Moshood Olalekan Adeoti is being framed within agriculture, employment generation and labour welfare prioritisation. Sixty-four percent of one of the jingles analysed connoted joy for the people in the state. The party is ready to improve standard of living of workers and pensioners, timely payment of civil servants' salaries and pensioners' pension arrears as well as vast economic development.
Within agriculture, the party aims at improving cocoa, kolanut and cashew farming. When elected, the party also intends to care for the aged, women, youth and children. Improving identified crops was found to be logical considering the state’s debt profile that needs to be defrayed using existing resources.
Delivering the promises is hinged on the fact that the party ‘holds holy book’ that calls for good governance, analysis suggests. The party believes the state and people have been suffering for a while. Hence, the need to vote for the party that would set them free from slave masters. ADP is a party that calls for a collective government where all indigenes of Osun will enjoy dividends of good governance tagged "Government of Osun for Osun”
With these promises, would voters be interested in the candidacy of Alhaji Moshood Olalekan Adeoti and his party by voting them in the September 22 election?

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