Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, 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.
Makinde said this on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television on Tuesday.
“The 2027 election won’t be PDP versus APC; it would be Nigerians versus APC. Mark my word on that,” he said.
The governor blasted 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.
According to him, his party, PDP remained the hope of the common man, stressing that the PDP won’t make the mistake that made it lose the 2023 presidential poll.
Makinde, while drawing lessons from the last poll, 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.
The Oyo governor reiterated that 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.
Arogidigba Global Journal reports that 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, while Aminu Tambuwal from the North West was 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.
He also said the PDP ticket would have been stronger had Atiku picked then Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike as his running mate.