Why PDP is technically dead in Oyo state – APC

The Oyo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is “Technically dead”.

Oyo APC stated this in a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan by its Publicity Secretary, Comrade Olawale Sadare.

According to the party, considering this, Governor Seyi Makinde should forget about installing “a stooge” as the next governor to take over from him as the state governor on May 29, 2027.

The party maintained that rather than thinking of installing the next governor of Oyo state,the governor should “use the remaining two years in office to seek forgiveness and correct most of his wrong actions.

” As a matter of fact, it is only a naive and wasteful person that would seek to secure the ticket of the Oyo PDP to contest any post in 2027. Technically, PDP is dead in Oyo state with no hope of resurrection in the nearest future’, it said.

Oyo APC added: “The supposed State Secretariat at Molete is a ghost place while most of the local government chapters do not have office or meeting venue. Sad enough, party decisions are taken and imposed on all members by the governor and his closest aide.

” It is certain that Gov Makinde would make attempts to foist a stooge on the good people of Oyo state for alleged selfish reasons but the whole world knows that the prospect of a good governor for the state does not lie in Gov. Makinde who has been allegedly running a one-man show since May 2019. ”

Oyo APC stressed: ” So, he (Makinde) can only try but he would be disappointed as whoever he presents would be roundly defeated at the poll. Apart from the fact that Gov Makinde would be one of the reasons the PDP might not to be eligible to present a single candidate for the 2027 general election, he has more harms to the umbrella party in Oyo state to the extent that all their structures have been uprooted as the original members are now stripped and disconnected”.

According to APC, the only way the governor could escape from voters’ revolt account of his alleged misdeeds and misgovernance is for him to use the remaining two years in office to seek forgiveness and correct most of his wrong actions.

The party maintained that the current ugly political situation in Rivers state would not be allowed to happen in Oyo through any form of autocracy in a democracy.