APC Mocks Makinde’s Projection Of Beating Tinubu In 12 States

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has mocked Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde’s marketing campaign organisation over its prediction that the governor would defeat President Bola Tinubu in 12 states and the Federal Capital Territory within the January 2027 presidential election.

The APC described the prediction as an expression of political ambition with out adequate proof of electoral energy, insisting that participation in an election doesn’t assure victory, whereas urging Makinde to cease counting imaginary victories.

The response adopted a press release by the Seyi Makinde Campaign Organisation, which declared that its presidential candidate, contesting on the platform of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), would defeat Tinubu within the 12 states recognized as battlegrounds for the President’s proposed marketing campaign visits, in addition to different components of the nation.

In a press release issued on Saturday and signed by its Director of Strategic Communications, Richard Ihediwa, the marketing campaign organisation listed Oyo, Kaduna, Rivers, Plateau, Borno, Enugu, Bauchi, Sokoto, Delta, Kano, Adamawa and Lagos as states the place it anticipated Makinde to defeat Tinubu.

The organisation attributed the President’s alleged declining electoral prospects to financial hardship and what it described as his administration’s failure to handle Nigeria’s challenges.

However, it didn’t present polling knowledge or different proof to assist its prediction.

Responding in a press release on Sunday, the Lagos APC spokesman, Seye Oladejo, stated Makinde and his marketing campaign staff appeared to have mistaken the chance to take part in an election for a assure of victory.

“Governor Makinde and his campaign team appear to have mistaken the privilege of participating in an election for the guarantee of victory,” Oladejo stated.

“We advise Governor Makinde to spend less time counting imaginary victories in 12 states and more time examining the political turbulence around him.”

Using an Olympic analogy, he added that participation was celebrated in sports activities, however no athlete earned a gold medal merely by showing on the beginning line.

Oladejo questioned the marketing campaign organisation’s nationwide political construction, the depth of its assist past Oyo State and its capability to construct a coalition able to difficult the incumbent president.

He stated the 2027 presidential election would require nationwide attain, organisational energy, credible political buildings and the power to mobilise voters throughout the nation.

“These are questions that cannot be answered by press statements, campaign slogans or inflated projections,” he stated.

The APC spokesman additionally pointed to what he described as political crises and chronic disagreements inside Makinde’s political camp in Oyo State, arguing that the governor ought to concentrate on consolidating his political base earlier than making projections about profitable states throughout the federation.

He stated political alliances trusted belief, shared pursuits, strategic self-discipline and a standard imaginative and prescient, including that disagreements with former allies raised questions concerning the sturdiness of a broader coalition.

Oladejo additional argued that presidential elections couldn’t be gained by way of what he described as handy assumptions or the mere itemizing of states on a marketing campaign itinerary.

He maintained that Tinubu had a long time of political expertise, a longtime nationwide community and a document of coalition-building that the opposition couldn’t dismiss.

The APC spokesman additionally cited the administration’s Renewed Hope agenda, saying the celebration would interact voters on financial reforms, nationwide growth, infrastructure renewal and institutional strengthening.

He challenged Makinde’s marketing campaign organisation to clarify why Nigerians ought to entrust it with the duty of governing the nation moderately than merely asserting the states it supposed to win.

“Makinde’s declaration, therefore, sounds less like a carefully reasoned electoral forecast and more like an attempt to manufacture momentum through headline-grabbing bravado,” Oladejo stated.

He added that the APC remained assured in Tinubu’s prospects within the 2027 election, urging Makinde to pay extra consideration to political tensions inside his camp than to predicting victories in 12 states.