Anthony Ehilebo, the Special Adviser on Media and Digital Media Communication to the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, presidential candidate, Seyi Makinde, has described the meeting between his principal and the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, flagbearer, Peter Obi, as a poliical phenomenon that would go down in history.
On Monday, Obi attended the inauguration of Makinde’s presidential campaign office in Abuja where he called for unity among the political class.
Ehilebo said the event would always be remembered.
In an interview on Channels Television on Tuesday, Ehilebo said a lot of Nigerians wished their state governors can do 50 percent of what Makinde has done in Oyo State.
He 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.”
Peter Obi’s presence at Makinde’s campaign office launch a political phenomenon – APM