Oyo APC Accuses PDP Guber Candidate of Reckless Statements

The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday berated the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Mr. Seyi Makinde, for engaging in what it described as uncoordinated vituperations rather than issue-based campaign.

It also said recent statements credited to Makinde showed him as a frustrated person who is suffering from perennial losses, noting that his comments on issues always prove that he is very naïve about public governance.

The APC in a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary, Dr. AbdulAzeez Olatunde, said Makinde’s comment on the recent rally organised by the beneficiaries of one of the social investment programmes of the APC government, N-Power, was unexpected from a person positioning himself for the exalted seat of a governor, stating that “an intelligent person will know that PDP synonymous with fraud and maladministration can never initiate, manage or sustain such a laudable and beneficial programme.”

He stressed that rather than condemning the APC for the rally, Makinde should gather the beneficiaries of the failed PDP Sure-P and YouWin programmes to organise a similar rally for his party.

Olatunde said: “It is a pity the best hand PDP can put forward for a gubernatorial election is a novice in public governance. Rather than Makinde to engage on issue-based campaign and tell the citizens his plans, he is busy displaying his ignorance with the statements credited to him.

“Such an individual should always be ignored, but in politics, one should always give them a dose of their drug. An intelligent person would have known that election is not won by billboards. We wonder why we should feel intimidated by Makinde’s billboard. He had similar billboards in the 2015 election and still came a distant fifth. We do not need any soothsayer to predict that Makinde cannot fair better in the 2019 election.

R-L: Commander, 553 BSG, Nigerian Air Force, Enugu, Air Commodore John I. Ukeh, representative of the General Officer Commanding 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Brig. Gen. G.K Nwosu; Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma; Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo; state Chairman, Nigerian Legion, Mr. Emeka Igwesi; President, state Customary Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice George Nnamani; Enugu State Head of Service, Mr. Chidi Ezema, and others, during the InterDenominational Church Service at Cathedral Church of Good Shepherd, Enugu, to commemorate the 2019 Armed Forces Remembrance Day in Enugu…yesterday