Oyo APC Not In Best Position To Advise Makinde Over N7.9 Billion Bailout Fund – PDP

Oyo state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the statement credited to the Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that Governor Seyi Makinde should do all he has promised since he has allegedly got N7.9 billion bailout funds.

In the same statement issued by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Akeem Olatunji, PDP said the APC is not in the best position to offer advice to the
Makinde-led government.

The party accused the APC of merely seeking to distract the new government in the state through
unwarranted claims.

According to the PDP, comments by the APC on the said bailout fund only shows that the opposition party was saddened that its government did not get the opportunity to mismanage the bailout fund.

The statement indicated that while the PDP was not averse to taking credible and quality advice from any quarter in the state, it was wary of “licking a poisoned chalice dressed
innocuously as altruistic advice from the APC on the above-mentioned issues.”

The statement further read: “We are all witnesses to how the immediate past APC government mismanaged the fortunes of the state and failed to fulfill its promises to the Judges, the
Judiciary and the entire people of the state during its eight-year rule.

“We cannot also forget in a hurry how the APC government put the future of thousands of our children who are students in LAUTECH in peril through unwarranted strikes and lack of funding.

“Rather than gallivanting about on the streets proffering unwanted advice to the government of Engineer Seyi Makinde, the APC should bury its
head in shame for the unmitigated
mismanagement its government foisted on the people of Oyo State in the last eight years.

“Let us restate here that the government of Engineer Seyi Makinde has sold itself to probity and accountability. It is not a decision forced on us by anyone. And in that regard, every kobo that accrues to the state will be judiciously used.

“We believe that some members of the APC are already getting jittery on realising that the PDP government is about to establish an anti-corruption commission in the state. It is clear that the hint of the incoming anti-corruption agency is making some persons in that party to commit unforced errors.”

The statement also enjoined the opposition in the state to allow the new government settle in and face the task of rebuilding the state which was practically crippled under the watch of the APC.