2027 Election Between APC And Nigerians — PDP’s Makinde
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State says the 2027 presidential election will be between Nigerians and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and not the APC versus his party, the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
“The 2027 election won’t be PDP versus APC; it would be Nigerians versus APC. Mark my word on that,” the governor said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday.
Makinde blamed the APC government for the wobbling economy and the escalating security challenges in the country, saying that the next poll will be judgment time for the Bola Tinubu presidency.
The Oyo governor boasted that his party remained the hope of the common man, stressing that the PDP won’t make the mistake that made it lose the 2023 presidential poll.
Drawing lessons from the last poll, Makinde said his party made a grave mistake by handing the presidential ticket, the national chairman slot and the office of the director general of the presidential campaign to members from the northern region only.
He said the exclusion of southerners from the three major slots dealt a self-inflicted blow to the PDP as culminated in the loss suffered by the party in the poll. In the build-up to the last poll, Iyorchia Ayu from the North Central was the PDP national chairman, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar from the North East was the party’s flag bearer whilst Aminu Tambuwal from the North West was the Atiku’s campaign director general.
“If the three main influential positions to take us to the election were occupied by the North East, the North Central, and the North West, how do we sell that position all around the country?” Makinde argued.
