Operation Wetie: Seyi Makinde’s Remark Was A Sobering Reminder – PDP

Seyi Makinde

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of being responsible for rising political tension and any potential violence ahead of the 2027 general elections. This comes after Makinde was blasted for addressing the national summit of All Opposition Political Party Leaders on Saturday, warning against what he called a dangerous consolidation of legislative power under a single party.

“Operation Wetie” — drawn from a Yoruba expression meaning “wet him” — refers to the political bloodletting that engulfed Nigeria’s western region, particularly Ibadan, in the mid-1960s.

Reacting via its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Ini Ememobong, PDP defended the Oyo State Governor, insisting that his reference to the historic “wetie” violence was not a threat but a warning against political repression.

Ini added that Makinde merely used history to caution the ruling party and national institutions about the consequences of suppressing opposition voices.

Its statement read, “The use of history in the way and manner done by Governor Makinde in the said speech served as a caution and advisory to the Federal Government, the APC, and other national institutions, of the unmitigated crisis that their actions and inactions can result in.

Governor Makinde offered a sobering reminder that when insatiable political greed and avarice replace patriotism and good governance… the resultant conflagration will be of immeasurable proportion

APC is creating conditions similar to those that led to the “wetie” crisis.

When the APC was in opposition, they did not merely threaten violence, they openly promised to make the country ungovernable.”

WOW.