Ahead of the March 11,2023, governorship election, the director-general, Asiwaju Tinubu-Shettima Coalition for Good Governance (ATSCGG), Mr Adebayo Shittu has expressed the determination of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to defeat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor Seyi Makinde in Oyo State.
The former minister of communication, who stated this in Ibadan during a press conference, advised Governor Makinde to prepare for his defeat in the March 11 governorship election.
Shittu in the press conference themed: “Whither Oyo State 2023,” said APC in the state after the glorious victory at the presidential and National Assembly elections, had gone to redefine its trajectory to guarantee equally overwhelming and undiluted victory and triumph over the main opponent and the current governor.
He said, “It would be recalled that Oyo State, as one of the foremost Yoruba States, had always been ruled by progressive parties under different names and colours.
“However, the state fell into bad times under the last administration of the late Senator Ishaq Ajimobi (of blessed memory). Unfortunately, he could not manage the APC primaries for local governments, state assembly, gubernatorial and National Assembly.
“Consequently, all party members who aspired for one position or the other and who were wrongly disenfranchised, decided to leave the party. Apart from exiting the APC, most of them joined Engr Seyi Makinde and the rival PDP to defeat the APC in the 2019 general elections.
“This saw the emergence of Seyi Makinde as Oyo State Governor. As God would have it, Seyi Makinde, therefore, got the Oyo State governorship seat without the needed psychological preparation or required political experience.
“This is someone who had neither been a counselor, a commissioner, a legislator or a political executive at any level. It was therefore very easy for him to prove that experience cannot be purchased from any earthly store.
“Or, how else do we explain that of all the APC elements who joined forces with him to become governor in 2019, not one of them remains with him till today?”
Shittu said the last Saturday presidential and national assembly elections had shown clearly that people in the state have unanimously resolved to completely submit and support APC.
“The results of last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections have shown clearly that our patriotic citizens of Oyo State have unanimously resolved to completely submit and support our great party, the APC with almost half a million votes for our presidential candidate.
“The victory of all three senatorial candidates of our party and ten out of fourteen House of Representatives, victory, the APC is clearly the unrivalled leader among competing political parties in our state.”
“We are therefore assured that with the foregoing results, the state assembly and gubernatorial contest on March 11 would be a walk-over for our great party, the APC,” Shittu declared.
