The attention of the Makinde National Reset Advocates (MINARA) has been drawn to the laughable, empty and statistically bankrupt statement by the Senator Sharafadeen Alli Campaign Organisation (SSACO), where they accused Governor Seyi Makinde of cluelessness.
In a statement issued by the National Director of MINARA, Bashorun Abiola, the group fired back at SSACO over its attack on Governor Seyi Makinde, describing the statement as laughable, empty and statistically bankrupt.
We would have ignored SSACO, but lies repeated without reply become truth to the ignorant. Let us use statistics, not sentiments, to bury their propaganda.
SSACO is celebrating N145 billion in 2024 and N214 billion in 2025 as if allocation alone equals development. That is the thinking of a sharing-the-money politician, not a nation-builder.
Governor Makinde said it clearly on national TV: What matters is not how much you receive, but how productive your economy is.
Every state received increased allocation after subsidy removal, including APC states. What did they do with it? Many APC states cannot pay salaries, cannot show one completed legacy project, and are still borrowing to pay recurrent bills.
When Makinde took over in 2019, Oyo IGR was N26.95 billion. Today, it is N103.25 billion in 2026. That is a 288 percent increase, achieved without increasing taxes, but by expanding the economy through agribusiness, infrastructure and tourism. Which APC state can boast of this?
The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC), a Federal Government agency under President Tinubu himself, ranked Oyo State third among all 36 states plus FCT in the 2025 Subnational Ease of Doing Business Report. If Makinde is clueless, why is a Tinubu Federal Agency ranking Oyo as 3rd best in Nigeria, ahead of most APC-governed states?
Between January and June 2026 alone, Oyo generated N253.67 billion in VAT, ranking 3rd nationwide, behind only Lagos and Rivers. Oyo beat Ogun State, an APC state with more factories and closer to Lagos. VAT is not allocation. VAT is proof that people are buying, selling, producing and consuming. That is a productive economy.
In the 2027 Budget of Sustained Progress, Makinde proposed N1.12 trillion, with N670 billion, representing 61 percent for capital expenditure, and only N444 billion for recurrent. That is a productive budget. Most APC states spend 70 percent on recurrent, paying salaries and sharing money. Makinde spends on infrastructure, education with N190.6 billion, and health with N93.01 billion.
Makinde returned over 65,000 out-of-school children to the classroom. That is productive economy. A child in school today is a worker, entrepreneur and taxpayer tomorrow. SSACO’s Oyo AHEAD agenda cannot point to one child it has returned to school even when he is still serving as Senator.
SSACO calls the N8.5 billion electricity project failed. That is a lie. While APC states like Ekiti and Abia are just talking about the Electricity Act 2023, Oyo under Makinde has already taken advantage of it, set up its own electricity market, and is building Independent Power Projects to power the Secretariat, hospitals and industrial clusters. What did the APC government in Oyo do for 8 years before Makinde? They left Oyo in darkness. Makinde is the first governor to dare to fix power at subnational level.
Makinde injects over 20billion naira monthly as salaries to over 130,000 workers, about N240 billion yearly, into the Oyo economy along with the newly approved wage award which stood at over 1 billion naira monthly. From May 2019 to May 2024, hospitality businesses in Oyo grew by 221 percent, from 1,424 to 5,342. That is wealth creation. That is productive economy. Hotels don’t grow in a dead economy.
SSACO should stop confusing Oyo people with allocation figures. Allocation is not achievement. Productivity is achievement.
By every independent statistic , IGR, VAT, Ease of Doing Business, Capital Budget, Education, Oyo under Makinde is better managed than many APC-governed states.
Senator Alli’s promise of N150 billion IGR and N10 billion youth fund is just paper promise. Makinde has already done N103.25 billion, with evidence. Alli has not shown one economic model, one factory, one job he has created.
Oyo people do not need a governor who will align with Abuja to share money. They need a leader who can reset Nigeria the way he reset Oyo. That leader is Seyi Makinde.
Oyo is working. Nigeria can work. Makinde is the Reset.
