Senator Sharafadeen Alli Campaign Organisation (SSACO) has said rejection of Governor Seyi Makinde by the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) leaders in the Southsouth Zone is a confirmation of its position that his presidential ambition is dead on arrival.
APM Southsouth leaders had in a newspaper advertorial yesterday passed a vote of no confidence in Makinde accusing him of lacking substance political will and focus to lead the party aright.
‘He came to the party with a promise of lies and has been wallowing in an ocean of dishonesty political compromise and incompetence. If he cannot be honest to his party men how can he be honest to Nigerians he aspires to lead?’ the APM leaders queried.
SSACO yesterday in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity Bisi Oladele said the rejection was a vindication of the position of Senator Sharafadeen Alli Campaign Organisation that Makinde was only playing a spoiler’s game using a fake presidential bid to negotiate soft landing ahead of the 2027 general election.
It said Governor Makinde knew he could not win the presidential election but was trying to use his position as a serving governor to undermine the votes of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the Southwest.
‘The good news is that he will not only lose to President Tinubu in Oyo State his lackey – Bimbo Adekanmbi – who he is desperate to install for an undemocratic third term will be flatly defeated by Senator Sharafadeen Alli whose Oyo AHEAD agenda will put Oyo State on a faster development lane from next year.
‘SSACO is glad that more stakeholders are now seeing through Makinde’s lies and rejecting his antics confirming that no Nigerian takes Makinde seriously again. His ambition is what it is: a smokescreen and dead on arrival’ the statement said.
The campaign organisation also pointed to Makinde’s political structures in Oyo State ”which is crumbling daily as associates and party leaders resign in droves thereby isolating him for his selfish decisions.”
‘If a man cannot manage his party in his own state how can he manage Nigeria?’ a Southsouth APM leader queried at the meeting on Tuesday.
‘The Southsouth stakeholders are therefore in sync with the reality in Oyo State that Makinde is a man who does not recognise established party structures same way he abandoned those who supported him to win the 2019 and 2023 governorship elections.
‘In the past few weeks no day passes without one aide or the other resigning from his sinking executive council (exco). It has shown that Governor Makinde who cannot manage his own men in Oyo State needs not be taken seriously about his ambition. It is dead on arrival’ the statement concluded.