Nigeria: Makinde Didn't Neglect Your LG, PDP Group Tells Oyo Deputy Gov

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Nigeria: Makinde Didn't Neglect Your LG, PDP Group Tells Oyo Deputy Gov

[This Day] A group within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Oyo State chapter, the Oyo PDP-Visionaries, has described a report in which some loyalists of the deputy governor, Rauf Olaniyan, blamed Governor Seyi Makinde for not developing Oorelope Local Government, Igboho, as baseless and self-serving.

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