Ekiti PDP faction tackles Makinde for mocking Fayose

In a statement by the factional State Publicity Secretary of the celebration, Raphael Adeyanju, the PDP advised ‘that the Oyo State Governor to show maturity expected by someone occupying his exalted office and grow over childishness and pettiness.

The party said:” It is quite unfortunate that somebody such as Governor Makinde, that wasn’t a secure member of the PDP may use EFCC trial to mock Fayose, that had been among the last men standing for the party when it lost power in 2015. We’d have dismissed his screen of political childishness and pettiness, but by opting to go gun with his mockery of Fayose, who’s simply being persecuted for standing firmly by the PDP in its own hours of problems, Engr Seyi Makinde has revealed to the public that someone could be a governor and not be a pioneer.”

The opposition party reaffirmed Fayose as the leader of this party in south-west zone, alleging that Makinde was representative of Progressives Congress inducing destabilising from the southwest chapter.

“It isn’t written in the party constitution which if a zone has just 1 governor, that governor automatically becomes the chief of this party. We hereby challenge him to declare that two Progressives Congress (APC) governors from the South-West didn’t encourage his election.

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“It’s an open secret that one particular Ayo Adegbite, aide of one of those governors was intercepted by soldiers brought money to Ibadan at a government car for him personally (Makinde).”

The celebration also alleged that Makinde was supporting the preponderance of suits against the celebration from both Ekiti and Osun States to please his paymasters as a payback to the support he obtained during his election.

He explained: “As at 2015 which PDP dropped electricity, Makinde was in Social Democratic Party (SDP). If committed leaders such as Fayose, that stood from the party had abandoned for different parties because he (Makinde) failed, the governorship ticket of the PDP would not have been appealing to him if he returned to the celebration in 2018.