Ayo Adeseun, a former Oyo Central senatorial district senator, has described Seyi Makinde, governor of the state as an ungrateful person.
In what confirms the all-is-not-well situation in the camp of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, the Ogbomoso-born politician, who spoke on Political Circuit, a Fresh 105.9 FM weekly programme Saturday morning confirmed that there was ongoing defection talk between Makinde and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
He added that Mulikat Adeola Akande, Ajibola Muraina, Adebisi AbdulRasheed Olopoeyan and other top PDP leaders are reaping the consequence of what they did to him.
In the build up to the 2019 election, Adeseun alleged that the PDP national working committee, NWC approached him for bribe of 250 million naira to get the gubernatorial ticket. While he said he promised to give them 50 million naira, “They went to Makinde who gave them the N250m and handed him the ticket
Adeseun said Ayodele Fayose, former governor of Ekiti, connived with Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers State and the NWC to hand over the party’s ticket Makinde.
According to him, “shortly after the party lost the 2015 general elections, I started to rebuild the party, I unilaterally appointed Ajibola Muraina as the coordinator of the rebuilding process.”
“When it was time for the gubernatorial election, I was called by the National Working Committee of the party, they asked me to pay N250 million for ‘kola’, I told them I couldn’t afford that and that I could only afford N50 million. They called Seyi Makinde and asked him for the same thing, he quickly paid. That was how the delegates’ list was manipulated in favour of the incumbent governor. Don’t forget I brought Makinde and Ladoja to the PDP.
“After I walked out of the primary election venue, Makinde and the reconciliation team visited me and we had an agreement. After his election and inauguration, he threw away the agreement.
“Fayose and the likes thought they could compel him to spend the resources of the state on them, to their amazement, they saw a different person.
“Before the primary, I had the control of the party structure in 22 local governments, Ladoja controlled 8, Makinde had 2 or 3, while Mulikat and Muraina had the rest. Mulikat, Muraina and Olopoeyan collapsed their own structures for Makinde for him to emerge. The delegate list that was supposed to be published a week before the primary was published two days to the election.”
