Ekiti PDP Dismisses Makinde-APM Link, Cautions Media

The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has disowned a purported report suggesting that the party has commenced grassroots mobilisation in Ekiti State for the presidential ambition of Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, in collaboration with the Allied Peoples Movement (APM).

The party said “it will not support treachery which is what the Oyo State Governor represents.”

The PDP described the report as false, fictitious and entirely unauthorised, having neither emanated from the recognised leadership of the party in Ekiti State.

In a statement in Ado Ekiti,  by the State Chairman of the PDP,  Hon Lanre Omolase, the Ekiti PDP leadership considered the publication a mischievous fabrication apparently designed to create confusion, misrepresent the political position of the party and lend an unwarranted imprimatur to a political narrative with which the chapter has no affiliation.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the Ekiti State PDP, under my leadership hereby distance itself completely from both the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and any purported presidential mobilisation project for Governor Seyi Makinde. No such mobilisation has been authorised, inaugurated or undertaken by the Ekiti State PDP leadership.

“Most importantly,  Governor Seyi Makinde has never stopped to demonstrate treachery and we in the PDP in Ekiti State will not have anything to do with such character who is only stable in betrayal. 

“The party therefore urge members, supporters and the general public to disregard the said publication and treat any claim purporting to speak for the Ekiti State PDP without authorisation from its recognised leadership as a product of speculation and political mischief.

“The leadership further cautions individuals and groups against appropriating the name, structure or authority of the Ekiti PDP to advance personal political interests. The party remains committed to due process, institutional discipline and the principle that only duly authorised organs and spokespersons can communicate its official positions.

“The Ekiti PDP leadership also advises media organisations and members of the public to exercise appropriate diligence before attributing political positions to the party, particularly on matters as consequential as presidential politics ahead of the 2027 general elections.”