A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and member of the party’s Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Adesoji Akanbi, has written Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, thanking him for working towards the return of the presidency from the North to the South.
Adesoji, a member of the 8th National Assembly, in a letter titled ‘Congratulations on Your Re-Election,’ a copy of which our correspondent obtained on Monday, said the governor had displayed his ‘Omoluabi’ virtue by backing the southern presidency.
Makinde is one of the five aggrieved state governors in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, popularly knows as the G-5, who insisted on the return of power to the South, after the two-term eight-year tenure of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), who is from the North.
The G-5 governors had opposed the candidacy of PDP’s presidential candidate, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, another northerner, vowing to work for a southern candidate.
While the governors tactically refused to openly declare an alleged alliance with the APC and its candidate, Bola Tinubu, they were said to have allegedly worked for the victory of the former Lagos State governor.
The APC had won the presidential election in Oyo and cleared the National Assembly seats in the states governed by the G-5 governors, including Oyo. The PDP candidates had also won in the governorship and House of Assembly elections held on Saturday in those states.
In a veiled reference to the alleged alliance, Akanbi, in his letter to Makinde, hailed the governor for his “display of unusual bravery.”
