Makinde Gets Lagos Support As PDP South-West Leader.
The Lagos State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has backed Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde as leader of the opposition party in the south-west region.
The Chief Press Secretary to Makinde, Taiwo Adisa, made this known in a statement, Gistlover understands.
Meanwhile, recall that Makinde and former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayemi, are currently are loggerheads over who controls the zone for the PDP.
But Lagos PDP has backed the Oyo State Governor during a stakeholders’ meeting at the government house, Ibadan, the state capital, on Saturday.
The meeting was attended by the full structure of the Lagos PDP executives, and that 12 executive council members were present out of 19 as well as the 17 non-working committee members of the party.
“The purpose of today’s meeting, to be very precise, is to thank Governor Makinde for standing by the party and to pledge total loyalty to his leadership of the South-West. No more, no less,” the Lagos PDP leaders were quoted to have said.
“We can tell you that the governor does not want anything from us. He, as the Chief Security Officer of Oyo State, needs nothing from the party, rather we are the ones who came all the way from Lagos, to plead with him to keep leading the party.
“We resolved to, irrespective of any rancor, move the party forward and we will ensure that the party takes its better seat in 2023.
“We did not come here to discuss who takes anything for zonal congress. The congress will soon come up and for all we care, we have come to restate our commitment to our own governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, and we stand by him anywhere he is going on the issue of the South West.”
