Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, last week held a media interaction in Ibadan, with selected media professionals from across the country. Chuks Okocha, who monitored the event, brings excerpts
Your Excellency, you said politics is a game but governance is not. But politics is a sort of party governance. So how do you ensure that governance and party functions are separated, bearing in mind some of the things that have been happening in the PDP in recent years?
I’ll start by saying that we’ve tried several constitutions, you know. We started with the parliamentary system, and then we went to the presidential, right? When you’re seeking votes, you know, you go out, engage with the people, you can promise them heaven and earth, right? But if you’re given the opportunity to serve the people, you have to deliver; and you have to deliver not only to the people of your own party. We engage at the federal level and say, look, we think you should do this for the states. And then we hear things like, oh no, you cannot empower your enemy or your competitor. With what?