The governorship candidate of the
Social Democratic Party (SDP), during the 2015 general elections in Oyo State,
Engineer Seyi Makinde has returned to his former political party, Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
Makinde is joining PDP less than
two weeks after National Chairman of PDP Senator Ahmed Makarfi and other
leaders of the party visited him and other political bigwigs in the state.
He made this announcement in a
press statement on Monday afternoon by his Media office in
Ibadan, the state capital.
Makinde in the statement said:
“following extensive, deep and wide consultations with National Leaders, Oyo
State leaders and elders of the Social Democratic Party, and cross sections of
strategic partners within Oyo state, I hereby announce my defection, with the
entire Omititun campaign structures at the 33 local government areas in Oyo
state, to the People Democratic Party”.
He further maintained joining the
PDP was not for personal gains but for the development of the state by finding
lasting solutions to the array of problems facing the state.
“This repositioning is not
primarily to pursue his personal ambition but was largely informed by the
resolution of all opposition parties in the state as contained in a recent
communique signed by leaders of opposition parties to work together in Oyo
state so as to find lasting solutions to the myriad challenges and
underdevelopment facing Oyo citizens, such as Educational dysfunction and
perennial failure, social and economic woes and lack of adequate security- all
which are outcomes and consequences of the ineffective six years of the All
progressives Congress rule in our state”.
Makinde said that he “is ready to
proffer long lasting and far reaching solutions to salvage Oyo state from
imminent collapse and needless crises that the current government has bestowed
on our people.”
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