G5: What I Told Oyo People Before Presidential Election – Makinde

G5: What I Told Oyo People Before Presidential Election – Makinde

In light of the controversy surrounding the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign, Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has provided insight into his deliberations with his people.

Makinde made the revelation following his landslide re-election in Saturday’s governorship elections, in which he received 563,756 votes to defeat runner-up Teslim Folarin of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who received 256,685 votes.

In the February 25 presidential election, the APC’s Bola Tinubu defeated the PDP’s Atiku Abubakar in Oyo and was declared President-elect.

Tinubu won the state after Makinde refused to support Atiku, a northerner, based on the PDP’s zoning principles.

The Oyo governor’s collaboration with four other disgruntled governors in the G5 party later fueled speculation that he was supporting Tinubu’s bid across party lines.

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However, during a live appearance on Channels Television’s The 2023 Verdict on Sunday, the governor pushed back against the speculation.

“Governor Mai Mala Buni just won his own re-election under APC,” he said. “But at the presidential election, PDP carried Yobe State. Does it mean Governor Buni worked for PDP?”

According to him, the reality is that people will make their choices.

“At the end of the day, the decision of who they voted for rested with the people. In all fairness, I told our people, ‘You must not do anything that will threaten the unity of this country’,” he said.

“‘We should be pushing in a direction where we’ll foster a united Nigeria, an inclusive Nigeria.’”

Arguing that the people of Oyo State could not be led blindly, the governor stated that they were “quite sophisticated”, adding that “that is behind us now”.

Makinde said before Nigerians is a president-elect who has emerged, adding that “we must support him [and] work with him for a better country”.

He reiterated that the agitation of the G5 did not place the individual careers of the governors as a major consideration.

“We thought we were going to fight for what is right, what is just for this country and for our party.  We said, ‘We prefer to see a PDP that will obey its own constitution’ because rotation and zoning of government and party offices is there; it’s part of PDP’s constitution,” he said.

“None of us ever thought, ‘We’re playing a survival game.’ No. We were just basically saying, ‘Do what is right. Do what is just. Have inclusivity as something that is central in our party and in our country and don’t do anything that can threaten the unity of this country.’ There’s no regret.”

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