Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has claimed that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar underestimated the impact the G-5 governors could have on his 2023 presidential campaign.
In a Channels TV interview from 2:59, Gov. Makinde described a failed reconciliation attempt in London. “We met with him (Atiku) in London, and all the things we discussed in there, he rejected it, and he came back and said we have moved on,” the governor stated.
According to him, Atiku dismissed their concerns with a condescending remark: “He said all these children, where were they when we were forming PDP, and we’ve seen results now.”
The governor indicated he now advocates for moving forward rather than dwelling on past conflicts. “Now, we don’t want to walk that path again. When we got to Bauchi, the first statement that I made during the PDP Governor’s Forum meeting is that under this dispensation, I made it clear to everybody that, ‘Look, wipe the slate clean, and let us not dwell in the past,'” he said.
He drew parallels between recent party divisions and previous splits that damaged the PDP’s electoral prospects. “We’ve seen the result, and if you’re saying, ‘Look, okay, some people did this in 2023, but others did it in 2015,’ PDP should have still been in power up until now. But some people walked out of Eagles Square; we knew who they are, and we lost power at the federal level due to that action.”
He concluded with a call for unity within the party: “And something like that repeated itself in 2023. We should pull back and say, ‘Look, this party still remains the major hope of the common man.'”
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