'If not him, who?' Oyelade speaks on Makinde’s presidential ambition

⊆’If not him, who?’ Oyelade speaks on Makinde’s presidential ambition

Yinka ADETUNJI

The Oyo state Commissioner for Information Prince Dotun Oyelade has reacted to the declaration of Governor Seyi Makinde to become the next president of Nigeria next year.

Prince Oyelade made this reaction in a statement he signed Thursday.

”If not him, who and if not now, when?” the commissioner had asked.

He said Governor Makinde had proved his mettle in Oyo state for the past 7years, adding, “Even the Federal Government and some states have emulated some of his governance policies like the effective response during Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, his quick responses to workers’ financial plight, his IGR expansion strategy that has raised the bar from a paltry 26.5bn in 2019 to 103bn in 2026, by the expansion of the economy without extra taxation on businesses and investors and his fiscal disposition that has made people to wonder how he finances so many infrastructural projects at the same time.”

Prince Oyelade said that Governor Makinde is strategically poised to wrestle power from President Bola Tinubu because “our people are not intimidated by the coercion of state governors and National Assembly members to join the ruling party.”