President MUHAMADU BUHARI WON THE ELECTION

All three governors are contesting for Senatorial seats on the party's platform while also sabotaging it in very clear terms in the governorship category.

To a certain degree, Buhari's campaign rally in Imo State two weeks ago prepared the ground for the tragedy in Ogun State as the crowd also turned against the APC leadership and the party's governorship candidate.

The dreadful manner in which all the major actors in the party have managed the conflicts bedeviling it since last year has left a very sour taste in the mouth and continues to cast a huge shadow over the strength of internal politics in the country.

These governors have, to varying degrees, engaged in bold-faced anti-party activities that should have gotten them expelled with very little thought put into the decision to do so because they've made it so easy.

However, governors are important to winning elections in the country and one suspects the party is only hanging on to them, with their attendant shenanigans, simply because of the electoral value they bring to the table.

This might explain why President Buhari met with Amosun and Akinlade at the Presidential Villa last month because the APM endorsed him for the presidential election.

President Muhammadu Buhari has been consumed by his own re-election ambition that he thought it was a good idea to host an opposition governorship candidate, Akinlade (left), in the Presidential Villa while the Ogun State chapter of the APC was torn down the middle [Twitter/@BashirAhmaad]

The presidency was forced to issue a statement announcing that the president will support all APC candidates while also welcoming endorsements from others.

However, it should have been clear to the president and his handlers that meeting Akinlade was sending mixed signals and should have been avoided if smart heads prevailed in the room where that decision was made.

President Buhari has failed to show firm leadership to rein in the excesses of Amosun and Okorocha. Both governors were cunning enough to promise the president that despite the division in their states, he'll still get maximum support, even from the opposition parties where their stooges have fled to upset the party's candidates in both states.

And the president, in his quest to not rock the boat as he faces a tight re-election challenge, has accommodated the whims of the governors to serve his own interest over that of the party. This is why he would go to Imo and Ogun and ask party members to vote for anyone of their choice when his mantra at other rallies is "vote APC from top to bottom".

The president's unsteady leadership has left party leaders like Oshiomhole and national leader, Bola Tinubu, hanging out to dry as they've felt the brunt of the renegade governors and made a bad situation really toxic for the party and for the nation's politics.

There's no doubt that the show of shame at the Ogun State rally on Monday was the culmination of terrible decisions that the APC has made in regards to the protracted conflict, a situation that should have never been allowed room to fester. 

When all is said and done, the specter of electoral violence has loomed large over Ogun due mostly to Amosun who's played the divide and conquer tactic to the detriment of the party's image.

If the president and his men are not spared a fallout of that terrible situation, then the country is in big trouble. Let good leadership prevail, gentlemen.