The All Progressives Congress (APC) chapter in Osun State has said that Seyi Makinde, the governor of Oyo State, does not need to provide counsel on the state’s crisis.
The party asked Makinde to cease calling them the aggressor in the state’s ongoing political standoff.
According to the APC, “roughly 10 persons from the attacks of the PDP hoodlums across the state” have been consumed by the chaos over control of Osun’s local government areas.
According to reports, Makinde counseled the state APC to go to court rather than rely on self-help when he was in Osogbo, Osun State, on Sunday to observe the swearing-in of the council chairmen by his counterpart, Ademola Adeleke.
But in response, the APC said in a statement issued by its spokesperson Kola Olabisi that Makinde was only attempting to win Adeleke over.
“Every available development pointed to the fact that the Oyo State Governor was internalizing metaphorical blood and spitting white spittle in order to please his fellow governor of the same party extraction,” Olabisi stated, dismissing Governor Makinde’s suggestion as needless.
Where was Governor Makinde when his political soulmate in the former State of the Virtuous exploited the sacred space of the Osun State Government House to provoke his party followers to launch a full-scale assault on our members and chieftains, if we may ask?
“Where was Governor Makinde when the freshly reinstated chairman of our party in Ikire, Hon. Remi Abass, Irewole Local Government Council Area, was shot dead by political thugs of his party, seemingly encouraged by Governor Adeleke’s earlier incitement?
Where was Governor Makinde on Saturday when his brother allegedly organized an unlawful, chaotic local government council election in Irojo, Ilesa, Osun State, and one person was slain by PDP-aligned thugs?
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“When daredevil thugs traceable to the violent thugs of his party nearly killed a chieftain of our party, Engr Remi Omowaiye, who is a serving Executive Director at the Federal Housing Authority, and Mr. Tobi Famurewa in Ilesa a few days ago,” the party pleaded with Makinde to explain to Nigerians why he lost his voice.
“We would like Governor Makinde to understand that he is not in a better position to instruct the APC leadership on how to carry out the continuous efforts of our duly elected chairmen and council members in order to benefit from the Court of Appeal’s Akure Division ruling on February 10, 2025.”
