The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has publicly advised Nigerians to hold Governor Seyi Makinde, a leader of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), accountable for the party’s current national state, rather than critiquing the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
The statement by the Oyo APC aims to shift public focus, characterising Governor Makinde as a central figure responsible for the PDP’s electoral and structural misfortunes.
The APC urged President Tinubu to remain focused on national governance while the opposition resolves what it termed an internal crisis engineered by its own leadership choices.
Olawale Sadare, the APC Publicity Secretary in Oyo State, spearheaded the criticism, alleging that a lack of strategic oversight by the PDP’s supposed elders permitted figures like Makinde to assume undue national influence. Sadare characterised the Governor as the party's ultimate undoing.
“Rather than look inward for solutions, supposed elders and leaders within the PDP left everything to chance and paved the way for the likes of Governor Makinde to take over the affairs of their party,” Sadare stated. “Because he lacked capacity, experience and other traits required to lead a national party, Makinde emerged as the final nemesis, which consumed the PDP.”
The APC official highlighted the party’s reduced governorship count, noting that Makinde remains the sole PDP governor across the entire Southern region, with only a handful of governors remaining in the North. Sadare concluded that the governor is incapable of delivering the PDP from its current “comatose condition.”
The PDP, which governed Nigeria from 1999 to 2015, has struggled significantly since losing power, navigating internal rifts, high-profile defections, and repeated electoral losses.
