The Senator Sharafadeen Alli Campaign Organisation has described the Oyo State governor and Allied Peoples Movement (APM) presidential candidate, Seyi Makinde, as clueless and an embarrassment to the people of the state.
The organisation stated that ‘for failing to address hunger in Oyo State despite increased funds from the Federation Account, Makinde has shown that he is more than clueless’.
In a statement yesterday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, by its Director of Media and Publicity, Bisi Oladele, the campaign organisation said Governor Makinde’s admission of more money from the Federation Account to Oyo State was a confirmation of the success of the economic reform policies of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Makinde had admitted on Monday in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, that Oyo State received more money from the Federation Account, but added that he has not been able to reduce hunger in the state.
The Senator Sharafadeen Alli Campaign Organisation described Makinde’s statement, though a function of his level of capacity, as a sad and clear reality of what Oyo State has been going through in terms of purposeful governance in the last seven years.
The campaign organisation said: ‘If through the ingenuity and purposeful leadership of President Tinubu, Oyo State allocation has increased tremendously, should it also be the duty of the President to ensure judicious use of the money?
‘If you have acknowledged that, monthly, you have been getting more money from the Federation Account, who are you expecting to come and help you to fight hunger in your state? Is it President Tinubu?
Most importantly, this same Governor Makinde has deliberately refused to allow local governments in Oyo State to function. He has criminally been everywhere, opposing local government autonomy to continue to spend both the state and local council funds.
‘Therefore, for the people of Oyo State, waiting a day longer to stop the extension of Makinde’s cluelessness beyond 2027 is what must not be allowed to happen, and on February 6, 2027, the governor and the man through whom he desires to extend his clueless government will be rejected by the people.’