PDP tackles Ganduje over South West capture comments

The Peoples Democratic Party on Monday warned the ruling All Progressives Congress not to get carried away with its last victory in Edo State, warning that the South-West can neither be bought nor captured.

The warning was issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, at a media parley at the party secretariat in Abuja.

Ologunagba was reacting to Sunday’s remarks by the National Chairman of the APC, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, in Akure, the Ondo State capital, that the ruling party was ready to capture all the six states in the southwest geopolitical zone.

Ganduje made the statement at a meeting that also had in attendance, members of the APC National Working Committee, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa; his counterpart from Lagos and Ekiti, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Biodun Oyebanji, respectively.

The meeting was held ahead of the November 16 governorship election in…