2023 Governorship: APC Boasts, Promises To Defeat Makinde in Oyo State
- Governor Seyi Makinde has been told that he will lose the forthcoming governorship election in Oyo state
- The call was made by the All Progressives Congress (APC) following what the party described as fake news
- It added that the fake news was orchestrated by the governor Seyi Makinde's government and its loyalists
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A serious message has been sent to Governor Seyi Makinde. The message was sent by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The APC told Makinde that no amount of fake news can save Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from defeat in the 2023 general elections.
Its Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, said in a statement on Tuesday in Ibadan, that PDP was allegedly behind the spread of fake news purportedly issued by one Alhaji Bashir Adeola, a Chieftain of APC in the state.
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The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that APC was reacting to a news report which claimed that Adeola, a spoke in condemnation of his party to favour PDP.
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The APC spokesperson dismissed the said news as fake, saying that the name, Bashir Adeola, was a fictitious name.
According to him, the report was the handiwork of some desperados in power who had been overwhelmed by the political fireworks of Oyo APC as demonstrated in the last few months.
He said:
“We have painstakingly checked our party membership register and found no member by the name Bashiru Adeola.
“We, then wonder where the PDP media got the ghost to speak with them as a chieftain of Oyo APC."
Sadare said that no amount of such sponsored fake news as well as unsubtantiated claims against the opposition would stop Makinde and PDP from imminent sack in the forthcoming general elections.
He said that some funny characters around the governor felt that “this was the best way to mitigate the effects of political affliction befalling their administration and party every day”.
Sadare said that PDP felt it was an unhealthy development to keep losing its members and supporters to the opposition.
He said that Makinde has nobody to blame for the development, adding he could not eat his cake and have it.
He added:
“A governor who neither does well with governance, nor runs an all-inclusive government cannot have the trust of serious politicians and voters.
“They just package their usual lies and put fictitious names as the source whereas the so-called Bashir Adeola was without a known Ward, Local Government Area or traceable residence or office address.
“They came up with the latest spurious story aimed at discrediting APC in an attempt to water down the adverse effect of Hon. Olusegun Olaleye’s defection to the APC."
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Legit.ng earlier reported that things have continued to fall apart in the PDP over the crisis between 5 aggrieved governors of the party, led by Nyesom Wike of Rivers state, and Atiku Abubakar, the party's presidential candidate.
Makinde is one of the leading members of Wike's camp, a governor that political pundits have predicted to be the casualty of the rift because of the political nature of Oyo.
But a legal practitioner who spoke with Legit, Wale Adeagbo, disclosed that the governor is playing by the party's constitution.
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In another report, the brewing storm in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may not favour one of its major actors, Seyi Makinde, the governor of Oyo state.
Makinde, who had pitched his tent with his Rivers state counterpart, Nyesom Wike, is part of the G5 governors who have distanced themselves from the campaign of Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate.
The aggrieved governors of the PDP are calling for the resignation of the party’s national chairman in the name of fairness and equity for the southern bloc of the party to have a say in its leadership structure.
Following the failure of the party’s leadership to heed their demand, they made it a major precondition to support Atiku’s campaign.
Source: Legit.ng
