The All Progressives Congress in Oyo State has stated that no amount of propaganda or fake endorsement of the state Governor, Seyi Makinde would prevent him from imminent defeat in Saturday’s governorship election.
The PUNCH reports that three pro-Tinubu groups in the state, on Sunday, dumped the gubernatorial candidate of APC in the state, Teslim Folarin, for the incumbent governor who is seeking re-election into office.
A statement by the state publicity secretary, Olawale Sadare, said, “The voters in the state should be wary of the antics of some merchants of lies and propaganda who are being sponsored by Governor Makinde and his agents to promote fake endorsement of the governor’s second term ambition with a view to misleading the electorate.”
He described the report of such endorsement as a manifestation of cowardice, undue pressure and desperation on the part of the governor and his negligible supporters who have seen the writing on the wall and are now looking for a miracle that could make them escape disgraceful defeat at the poll on Saturday.
Sadare stated that there are no pro-Tinubu groups registered with Oyo APC by the names “Southern for Tinubu BAT Democracy”, “Yoruba Campaign for BAT” and “Tinubu Campaign Movement” while the two names mentioned in the fallacious news report were fictitious.
He said the latest fake news came from the same unscrupulous elements who promoted one non-existing Bashir Adeola as Oyo APC chieftain purportedly supporting Makinde.
He added, “It is an established fact that Makinde has embarked on a spending spree to get support for another term in office as he invited some stakeholders with Oyo PDP to the Agodi Government House few days ago and gave them N500 million as a bait but the fact remains that no reasonable politician in the state would trust him (Makinde) again in spite of the fate suffered in his hands by those who assisted him to become governor in 2019.
“Among shameful acts being perpetrated by the drowning governor and his lackeys are; coercion of senior public servants (especially tutors-general, education secretaries and headteachers) to turn public school environment into campaign grounds for PDP candidates, sponsorship of miscreants drawn from the PMS to intimidate residents and prospective voters across the state, payment of heavy sums to some media executives so as to influence the content of their news and programmes in favour of the PDP, enlistment of support of pastors and some other religious leaders and so on.”
