The Oyo state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Tuesday, berated the state’s chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for celebrating the polluted electoral process which took place during the Kogi state governorship election held on November 16.
The Oyo PDP, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Engineer Akeem Olatunji, said that only politicians with killer instincts, propensity for vote stealing and electoral corruption would celebrate the rape of democracy witnessed in Kogi last weekend.
The PDP spokesman commended the role played in Kogi state by the governor of Oyo state, Engineer Seyi Makinde, declaring that as the chairman of the PDP Kogi state Governorship Campaign Council, Governor Makinde discharged his responsibilities creditably and honourably.
The statement described a statement by the state’s chapter of APC, which attempted to mock the role played by Makinde and the loss of the PDP in the election, stating that the APC displayed “a show of buffoonery and the height of insensitivity to the families of ten persons who were felled by the bullets of sponsored marauders, who denied the PDP of its victory.”
According to the statement, the claim by the APC that Governor Makinde abandoned his duty post to relocate to Kogi state was untrue, baseless and an indication that the Oyo State APC has become frustrated with itself, being the bad loser that it has proven to be.
“Since it was thoroughly defeated by Engineer Seyi Makinde at the March 9 governorship election in Oyo state, the APC in the state has become an object of pity that has been clawing at one form of hallucination after the other,” the PDP said.
The party added: “For want of what to say, the APC criticised Governor Makinde for allegedly abandoning his duty post, failing to keep major cities clean and equally failing, according to it, to pay the new N30,000 minimum wage.
“All these are at best phantom allegations, tissues of lies, opportunistic comments and a display of arrant ignorance.
“The APC is busy misinforming the public about the minimum wage when it is clear to the workers that the parameters for payment of the new minimum wage were just released by the Federal Government on the day it made the statement. How do they expect the Governor to pay wages that the parameters were not clarified by the Federal authorities?
“Besides, the APC, which ran a government that was unable to pay the national minimum wage of N18,000 for eight years previously should be ashamed of dabbling in such a discussion at this stage.
“It is on record that Governor Seyi Makinde has been doing its best to succeed in the task of keeping Ibadan and the major cities clean, though the challenges being faced in the sector right now are due to the booby traps set by the APC government, which never wished the PDP and the people well.”
The statement further stated: “Makinde, who the people know as a governor with a difference, will never abandon his duty post without doing the right thing. He has been working round the clock to keep Oyo State clean despite concerted efforts by APC loyalists to sabotage the government.”
The PDP maintained that the description of Governor Makinde as an ‘unofficial caretaker governor with a fake mandate’ demonstrated the height of irresponsibility and crass ignorance of APC leaders.
