WHY APC WERE DEFEATED IN OSUN WEST SENETORIAL DISTRICT BYE ELECTION -ONYEAMA.

Geoffrey Onyeama,Minister of foreign affairs,says that the All Progressives Congress (APC) can learn from it's defeat in the Osun by-election which took place on Saturday.

Ademola Adeleke,candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled a total of 97,480 votes to defeat Mudashiru Hussain of the APC who had 66,116 votes.

Ademola is the younger brother of the late Isiaka Adeleke,Senator who represented Osun  West senatorial
district his death on April .

Speaking with thejournalists on Monday after having a meeting with John Oyegun,National Chairman of the
APC,Onyeama said the party needed to work together.

"You learn from everything,very often you can learn from a defeat,even more than you can learn from victory," the minister said.

"I think there are good lessons we can learn from that,going forward,in terms of organizing and staying together within a particular state and avoiding situations where individuals become too paramount.

"As a party ,we have to work,it's not individual but about the party".

According to him,the crisis in Enugu state chapter of the party and how the  situation could be managed was discussed at the meeting with oyegun.

He said that as the highest public office holder in the state,It was his responsibility to ensure that the crisis did
not escalate.

The minister also said that it was his responsibility to ensure that everybody worked toward the developnment of the state,while supporting the programmes of the APC-led federal government.