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Oyo PDP: Group Calls On Makinde To Warn Aides Rebuking Members Who Are Supporting Atiku

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A group within the fold of the Oyo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) identified as Atiku Victory Vanguard (AVV), has called on the State Governor, Seyi Makinde to put his aides in check.

According to the group, some of Makinde’s aides were allegedly attacking some party leaders who have decided to support the PDP flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar.

Naija News reports that the group alleged that it was very important for Makinde to call his aides to check to avoid any looming crisis within the Oyo PDP.

The governor, who is part of the five aggrieved PDP governors popularly known as the G5 governors decided not to support Atiku just like other members of the G5 have resolved.

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The G-5 governors, which include Governors Nyesom Wike (Rivers State), Samuel Ortom (Benue State), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu State) Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia State) and Seyi Makinde (Oyo State) had pulled out of the party’s presidential campaign council due to the refusal of the National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu to resign from office.

However, Naija News gathered that some PDP leaders in Oyo who have decided to support Atiku in the state, like a former Minister of Power and Steel, Elder Wole Oyelese were being verbally attacked by some aides of the governor.

The group in a statement accused some of Makinde’s aides of making unnecessary comments about some leaders of the party including Oyelese.

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“We sincerely hope that Governor Seyi Makinde will call these faceless, rude and indecent individuals to order for the sake of peace in our great party.

“We expect people who will be speaking in defence of the governor to be sharp-witted individuals and not nit-wits as we are currently witnessing.

“We sincerely believe that when our principal said that many people who do not mean well for Governor Makinde currently surround him, Elder Oyelese knew what he was saying.

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“This faceless group tried to smear our leader’s name with the matter of money. We challenge anyone who has hard evidence that Elder Oyelese ever solicited funds or has ever compromised on financial matters to come out and say so. We believe that for a Nigerian who held public office at the federal level for over five years to leave the office with his reputation untarnished is a thing to be applauded,” the group submitted.