SEYI MAKINDE SUPPORT ORGANIZATION 2027
We will not allow propaganda to replace facts. Let the records speak.
1. Governor Ayodele Fayose, Nigerians are watching. You have spent considerable time attacking Seyi Makinde, but the more you attack him personally, the more Nigerians ask a simple question: Why are you so uncomfortable with Makinde’s growing national acceptance?
2. You call Makinde ambitious. So what? Ambition to serve Nigeria is not a crime. Every politician seeking the presidency is ambitious. The real question is: What has that ambition produced? In Makinde’s case, Nigerians can look at Oyo State and judge the roads, infrastructure, education, healthcare, investment and economic initiatives for themselves.
3. You keep dragging the G5 into every conversation as though Seyi Makinde single-handedly created the problems of the PDP. That is political revisionism. The G5 was a collective political decision involving five governors. If you want to reopen that chapter, then tell Nigerians the complete story—not the version that conveniently places all responsibility on Makinde.
4. And regarding your alleged private conversations with Makinde, a private telephone conversation is not a political constitution. Politicians change their minds. Circumstances change. Political calculations change. Nigerians are interested in what Makinde is saying today and what he can offer the country tomorrow.
5. If Makinde once told you he was not interested in running and later reconsidered, what exactly is the crime? Did he sign an oath never to contest? Did Nigerians lose their constitutional right to choose him? Political positions evolve. That is normal.
6. What is not normal is turning a political disagreement into a permanent personal campaign against another politician.
7. Fayose, Nigerians are not asking you to endorse Makinde. You are entitled to support whoever you want. But if your argument against him is strong, bring facts. If his record is poor, show Nigerians the evidence. If his policies have failed, name them. If another candidate is better, tell Nigerians why.
8. But repeatedly appearing in the media to attack one man does not constitute an alternative political programme. Noise is not evidence. Insults are not policy. Personal attacks are not governance.
9. You also speak about political survival. Nigerians remember that your own political career has had its share of controversies and battles. Your tenure in Ekiti is part of Nigeria’s public record, just as Makinde’s tenure in Oyo is now part of the public record.
10. Therefore, nobody has the moral authority to demand that Nigerians examine another politician’s record while asking Nigerians to forget his own. Every former governor should be prepared to have his own tenure examined with exactly the same seriousness.
11. Your time in office should be compared with Makinde’s. Your infrastructure record should be compared with his. Your economic policies should be compared with his. Your approach to education, healthcare, investment and employment should be compared with his.
12. That is the debate Nigerians want.
13. Makinde does not need Fayose’s permission to become nationally relevant. He does not need Fayose’s endorsement to speak to Nigerians. And he certainly does not need anyone to determine whether he has the right to seek the presidency.
14. What matters now is performance. Oyo State has become the laboratory through which Nigerians can examine Makinde’s approach to governance. Whether one agrees with every decision or not, there is a record to examine.
15. And that is why the attacks are becoming less effective. You can attack Seyi Makinde’s personality every day, but you cannot erase projects from the ground. You cannot erase roads. You cannot erase policies. You cannot erase government records. You cannot erase the experience Nigerians have had under his administration.