GOV. SEYI MAKINDE AT THE CENTRE OF PDP SOUTH WEST BREWING CRISIS
Governor. Seyi Makinde have been accused of instigating zoning which isn’t beneficial to the south western PDP for his own personal ambition
Ahead of the October 30 National Convention of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), a fresh crisis has hit the party in the South West over the zoning arrangement of its national offices.
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, who is the only PDP governor in the six states of the South West, has been alleged to be at the centre of the crisis on the grounds that he has been working against the interest of PDP in the zone because of his purported ambition to get the 2023 presidential ticket of the party.
The spokesperson of the PDP in Oyo State, Akeem Olatunji, has dismissed the allegation, saying it is false that Makinde has been working against the interest of the South West for people from the zone to attain national offices of the party.
Sources within the party accused the governor of ensuring that the South West is deprived of key positions in the party’s zoning arrangement of its national offices, adding that his purported unstable decisions are the key reason why the position for the national chairmanship position in the PDP was zoned to the North.
Governor Makinde, as gathered, made the strongest case for the chairmanship position to be micro-zoned to the South West at the beginning of the race. The sources said the governor changed his mind later by allegedly muting the idea for the North to produce the party’s national chairman.
According to one of the sources, ‘we were shocked when the news broke that it was the Oyo State Governor that instigated the decision of taking the position of the national chairman of the party away from the South to the North. It is a classic act of betrayal because, as a matter of fact, it was Makinde that hitherto was the chief campaigner for the Southwest producing the next national chairman of the party.
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