‘He sometimes behaves like a child’ — APM chieftain faults Makinde’s stage stunt in Ondo

Bisi Olopoeyan, a chieftain of the Allied Peoples Movement
(APM), has criticised Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo, over his current stage
stunt in Akure, the Ondo state capital, describing it as infantile.

 

Olopoeyan spoke in an interview on the KMO (Knowledge Meets
Opinion) programme, uploaded on YouTube on Friday.

He questioned the relevance of the governor’s motion to
governance, saying Makinde seemed to be extra inquisitive about taking jabs at
President Bola Tinubu than presenting his personal plans to the voters.

“Is governance run by leaping about? Seyi Makinde generally
behaves like a baby. Are he and Tinubu the identical age? Or does he suppose he’ll
by no means develop outdated?” the APM chieftain requested.

“Tinubu’s firstborn is older than Seyi Makinde. He jumped
off a stage and anticipated Tinubu to do the identical. Is leaping off a stage the
knowledge wanted to run a authorities, when it’s not as if you’re going to
wrestle or field?”

Olopoeyan stated Makinde’s motion steered that he had little
to supply past repeatedly mentioning Tinubu throughout his marketing campaign.

“It simply exhibits that he doesn’t have something to marketing campaign
with apart from to maintain mentioning Tinubu. Why can’t he simply inform folks what
he needs to do in another way?” Olopoeyan requested. 

“If Seyi Makinde’s father was alive, may he leap off a
stage like that?”

BACK STORY

On Thursday, the APM presidential candidate jumped off the
stage on the south-west city corridor assembly of the Makinde/Daura marketing campaign
organisation in Akure, the Ondo state capital, to make a degree about stamina
forward of the 2027 elections.

Makinde challenged different presidential candidates to do the
identical, telling the viewers: “If they can do that, vote for them.”

He urged Nigerians to contemplate the stamina of candidates
contesting within the 2027 presidential election.

The governor stated he wouldn’t make age a problem within the
contest however would concentrate on the candidates’ power and talent to deal with the
calls for of the workplace.

OLOPOEYAN-MAKINDE RIFT

Despite being an APM chieftain, Olopoeyan has been a vocal
critic of Makinde and his administration’s insurance policies in current occasions.

The two politicians had been reportedly robust allies within the
early years of Makinde’s administration however fell out shortly after his victory
within the 2019 governorship election over disagreements and political concessions.

The rift reportedly led Olopoeyan and a few of his supporters
to go away the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the platform on which Makinde gained
the governorship in 2019 and secured re-election in 2023.

The two males later reconciled forward of the 2023 governorship
election. However, one other disaster reportedly erupted round August 2026 over
allegations that Makinde had didn’t allocate native authorities chairmanship
slots to Olopoeyan’s loyalists for the LG elections.

Olopoeyan and his supporters determine themselves because the
legacy APM and are reportedly backing Tinubu for re-election in 2027.

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