The Allied Peoples Movement, APM, has described the presence of Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate Peter Obi at the inauguration of Seyi Makinde’s presidential campaign office in Abuja as a significant political development that could be remembered in Nigeria’s history.
Anthony Ehilebo, Special Adviser on Media and Digital Media Communication to the APM presidential candidate, said the meeting between Makinde and Obi at the event reflected what he described as an unusual moment in the country’s political landscape.
Obi attended the official inauguration of Makinde’s presidential campaign office in Abuja on Monday, where he urged members of Nigeria’s political class to embrace unity.
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television on Tuesday, Ehilebo said the event drew considerable public attention and demonstrated the level of support Makinde had built during his time as governor of Oyo State.
He said many Nigerians outside Oyo State had expressed the desire to see similar levels of performance from their own governors.
According to him, the large turnout at the campaign office inauguration was an indication of the goodwill Makinde had attracted over the years.
Ehilebo said: “I’m going to try and make sense from the last clip showing lots of Nigerians at that event, you can see the massive turn out and that goes to show the kind of love that Seyi Makinde has developed in the course of period that he has been governor of Oyo State.
“People from other states have wished that their state governors could have performed even if it’s 50 percent of what Makinde has done in Oyo State.
“It was an APC member that congratulated me first when my appointment was made and he went to a post I made in 2021 where I said the kind of president I wanted was Makinde, that was the post he decided to make his congratulations to.
“For me, it’s a story that predated the destiny that we are seeing right now to the extent that you have other presidential candidates coming to the opening of your campaign hub. It’s indeed something that would go into our history books as a political phenomenon if you call it that.”
