Although defendant now contends that his guilty plea should be vacated because his plea allocution was defective, he never specifically moved prior to sentencing to withdraw his plea or made a postverdict motion to vacate the judgment of conviction; consequently, appellate review of the sufficiency of the plea allocution is precluded (see, People v Lopez,
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