The Peoples Democratic Party in the South West has reacted to a statement purportedly issued by the Zonal Secretary of the party, Alhaji Rahman Owokoniran who allegedly accused the Oyo State Governor of deceiving the South West PDP.
Owokoniran recently accused Governor Makinde of campaigning for the APC candidate at the detriment of their party’s presidential flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar
“The South-West PDP is not happy with the development that Makinde campaigned for another presidential candidate at the detriment of our candidate. All the while, the governor made us believe that he wasn’t against the candidate.
But the PDP Exco in a release signed by the Publicity Secretary of the party in the Zone, Chief Sanya Atofarati and made available to the media said the alleged expression of the Zonal Secretary is his personal opinion and not representing the collective voice of the South West Executives of the party.
According to the release, there was nowhere the Governor of Oyo State called anybody, be it private or official to vote against the Presidential Candidate of our party, PDP, during the last Presidential and National Assembly elections.
The trend of election of February 25 throughout the country is a clear indication that there were many governors who lost their domains and this applies to other states and not only Oyo State which cut across all major political parties.
This shows that the electorates are becoming wiser and should not be taken for granted, based on religious and ethnic bigotry.
The Presidential candidate of our party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has followed the constitutional process on all issues arising from the February 25 general election in the law court and we are very positive and hoping to claim our mandate back.
The South West Zonal Executives hereby distanced itself from the purported press interview by the Zonal Secretary and categorized the same as his personal opinion which is his fundamental human rights.
