APC panicks as Makinde’s posters flood Northern Nigeria

Posters bearing the image of Oyo State Governor, Engineer Oluwaseyi Abiodun Makinde, for the 2027 presidential race have flooded key parts of Jigawa State, courtesy of a support group which promises to do the same in other Northern states.

The posters, that bear the insignia of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), were seen in strategic areas of Dutse, the state capital with Slogans such as “To Move Nigeria Forward 2027: His Excellency Engineer Oluwaseyi Abiodun Makinde for President” and “2027: Seyi Makinde Is the Answer”.

Interacting with Newsmen in Dutse, the National Secretary of the Nigeria Youths Awareness Group for Makinde 2027 (NYAG Makinde 2027), Alhaji Lawal Abdullahi, revealed that the initiative was part of a deliberate mobilisation effort.

According to him, plans have been concluded for wider visibility, adding that by next week, they will extend the distribution of posters and other campaign materials to Kano, Bauchi, Katsina, Borno, Yobe, and Gombe states.
“We have concluded arrangements for wider visibility. By next week, we plan to extend the distribution of posters and other campaign materials to several northern states, including Kano, Bauchi, Katsina, Borno, Yobe, and Gombe,” he added.

Alhaji Abdullahi further stated that contacts have already been established with political figures nationwide, explaining that the campaign will gradually expand to southern Nigeria as part of a broader strategy to build momentum ahead of the 2027 polls.

Meanwhile, the Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has warned some of its members who are supporting Governor Seyi Makinde that the party would no longer accept their remaining in the party.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, by its Publicity Secretary, Wasiu Olawale Sadare, the APC, made it clear that it would not continue to tolerate those who claim to be its members who are praising the governor.

The party pointed out that it would not allow anyone jeopardising its efforts to take over the state in 2027 and described some APC chieftains who have been praising Makinde as politicians driven by self-interest.

“But for selfishness and poor orientation borne out of indiscipline and myopia, no reasonable member of the APC would turn himself into a propaganda machinery for the current PDP administration which has mortgaged the future of the unborn generations by wasting enormous resources on frivolities and inanity in the last six years.

“We found the conducts of the culpable personalities highly reprehensible and irresponsible in view of the facts they both laid claims to being chieftains of our great party up till the present moment.

“We have done our diligence and established that those who parade themselves as APC chieftains and still work for PDP in recent times have no reasons to engage in such shameful acts but we would engage them as democrats since some school of thoughts are of the opinion that they were either misinformed or misrepresented,” the party noted.