{"id":30907,"date":"2020-10-08T19:18:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T19:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=30907"},"modified":"2020-10-08T19:18:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T19:18:55","slug":"i-had-no-hand-in-the-attack-against-fayose-makinde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-had-no-hand-in-the-attack-against-fayose-makinde","title":{"rendered":"I had no hand in the attack against Fayose \u2013 Makinde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Oyo Governor Seyi Makinde has denied having anything to do with the attack on former Ekiti Governor Ayo Fayose during the grand finale of the Ondo Governorship campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Fayose was on Wednesday attacked by hoodlums who removed his cap as he made his way to the podium.<\/p>\n<p>The former Governor accused Makinde and former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Bode George of masterminding the assault.<\/p>\n<p>But reacting through his Chief Press Secretary Taiwo Adisa, Makinde said he wouldn\u2019t want to join issues with Fayose, who he said appears perpetually desirous of hugging the limelight even when the occasion doesn\u2019t desire such grandstanding.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI believe that ex-governor Fayose and his handlers need to look far away from Oyo state in search of their enemies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Makinde has no link whatsoever with the incident Fayose\u2019s aide was talking about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect all right- thinking members of the PDP to join the Governor of Oyo State in the prosecution of the noble and democratic assignment he is executing on behalf of the PDP in Ondo State at this time, instead of seeking to distract him one way or the other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governor will, however, not be distracted either on the task at hand or on the well- intentioned desire to join other leaders to rebuild the PDP in the South West geopolitical zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content addtoany_content_bottom\">\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/thenationonlineng.net\/i-had-no-hand-in-the-attack-against-fayose-makinde\/\" data-a2a-title=\"I had no hand in the attack against Fayose \u2013 Makinde\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Oyo Governor Seyi Makinde has denied having anything to do with the attack on former Ekiti Governor Ayo Fayose during the grand finale of the Ondo Governorship campaign. Fayose was on Wednesday attacked by hoodlums who removed his cap as he made his way to the podium. The former Governor accused Makinde and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":18023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1028,1165,65],"class_list":["post-30907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-ayodele-fayose","tag-makinde","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I had no hand in the attack against Fayose \u2013 Makinde - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Oyo Governor Seyi Makinde has denied having anything to do with the attack on former Ekiti Governor Ayo Fayose\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-had-no-hand-in-the-attack-against-fayose-makinde\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I had no hand in the attack against Fayose \u2013 Makinde\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Oyo Governor Seyi Makinde has denied having anything to do with the attack on former Ekiti Governor Ayo Fayose\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-had-no-hand-in-the-attack-against-fayose-makinde\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-08T19:18:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/11\/Seyi-Makinde.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-had-no-hand-in-the-attack-against-fayose-makinde#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-had-no-hand-in-the-attack-against-fayose-makinde\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"I had no hand in the attack against Fayose \u2013 Makinde\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-08T19:18:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-had-no-hand-in-the-attack-against-fayose-makinde\"},\"wordCount\":241,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-had-no-hand-in-the-attack-against-fayose-makinde#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/11\/Seyi-Makinde.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ayodele Fayose\",\"Makinde\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-had-no-hand-in-the-attack-against-fayose-makinde#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-had-no-hand-in-the-attack-against-fayose-makinde\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/i-had-no-hand-in-the-attack-against-fayose-makinde\",\"name\":\"I had no hand in the attack against Fayose \u2013 Makinde - 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