After lessons from 2023, Oyo governor says no more backroom deals that weaken the PDP.
Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has made it clear: the PDP will not be held down to help another party win power in 2027.
Speaking at the inauguration of a newly built PDP Secretariat in Oke-Ado, Ibadan, Makinde admitted he was part of arrangements in 2023 that favoured another party at the presidential level—but said that chapter is closed.
“I’ve repented. I won’t go again,” he declared. “Holding PDP down for another party? No, no, no.”
Makinde blamed the party’s internal crisis on a few individuals who were expelled in November 2025, urging members to trace current troubles back to their source. He also expressed confidence in the judiciary to fairly resolve PDP’s lingering court cases.
A highlight of the event was the handover of documents for the new secretariat—named after former state PDP chairman Alhaji Omokunmi Mustapha—to Alhaji Kabiru Turaki, whose chairmanship emerged from a convention later nullified by a Federal High Court in Ibadan.
The takeaway: Makinde says the PDP is done with compromise politics—and 2027 won’t be business as usual.
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