Lagos PDP Backs Makinde In South-West Leadership Tussle

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State has taken sides with the Governor Seyi Makinde faction in the power tussel between the governor and former governor of Ekiti State Ayo Fayose.

The party leadership during a meeting on Saturday, promised to support the Oyo governor.

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Making this disclosure in a statement, Taiwo Adisa, the Chief Press Secretary to governor Makinde, revealed that Dayo Ogungbenro, the caretaker zonal chairman of the party, backed Makinde as the leader of the party in the zone.

The party's leadership in Lagos further revealed that the Lagos chapter of the party had chosen to resolve the party's internal crisis in a bid to unseat the Babajide Sanwo-Olu led administration come 2023.

“The purpose of today’s meeting, to be very precise, is to thank Governor Makinde for standing by the party and to pledge total loyalty to his leadership of the South-West. No more, no less,” Adisa quoted the Lagos PDP leadership.

According to the party's leaders, their support for the governor was not as a result of any hidden request made by either the governor or the party leadership

“We can tell you that the governor does not want anything from us,"  the Lagos PDP leaders said. "He, as the Chief Security Officer of Oyo State, needs nothing from the party, rather we are the ones who came all the way from Lagos, to plead with him to keep leading the party."

The party leadership further revealed that its members in Lagos had decided to look beyound the internal party crisis and prepare the party for 2023 elections, 

“We did not come here to discuss who takes anything for zonal congress," the party leadership further said. "The congress will soon come up and for all we care, we have come to restate our commitment to our own governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, and we stand by him anywhere he is going on the issue of the South West.”

Recall that Governor Makinde and Fayose had been having incesant disagreement over who should be incharge of the party in the South-West region.