The governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, recently denounced the All Progressives Congress, calling the party's political platform and candidates "dead on arrival" in the state.
The governor called Oyo APC "laughable" and "devoid of any atom of shame, empathy, or remorse" for the suffering, emotional trauma, and psychological trauma caused to the people of the state for eight interrupted years, according to a statement by PDP's publicity secretary in the state, Akeem Olatunji.
The response followed a statement by Olawale Sadare, the state press secretary for the APC, in which he claimed that the opposition's desperation to seize control of the state was being fueled by a lack of access to the state's funds.
The statement reads: “If Makinde was at the very least power drunk as shamefully alleged by our noisy neighbours, many of its members would have been languishing in jail by now. Governor Makinde, a peaceful and peace-loving person epitomised, has remained calm even in the face of unprovoked verbal assaults and vituperative remarks from the APC in the state against his person and personality outside of government.
“Could any opposition party member or members dare half of what APC is recklessly doing now with its government between 2011 and 2019? But we believe this is the beauty of democracy.
“It was on record how the then APC governor publicly bullied retirees and pensioners who demanded what rightfully belonged to them and even compared them with dead people, it was also on record how the APC government despite its monumental failure in education shamefully disgraced itself while engaging in a needless face-off with protesting LAUTECH students after over two whole years of being on strike.”