‘Selling Pepsi, promoting Coke’ — Shehu Sani taunts Obi for attending Makinde’s APM campaign launch
Shehu Sani, former Kaduna central senator, has reacted to the attendance of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), at the unveiling of the presidential campaign office of Seyi Makinde, Oyo governor, in Abuja.
In a post on X on Tuesday, Sani implied that Obi was promoting another candidate despite being the NDC’s presidential candidate.
“Peter is selling Pepsi, and he is doing promo for Coke,” Sani, who is seeking to return to the senate on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), wrote.
At the campaign office unveiling on Monday, Obi said Makinde, the presidential candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), has the capacity to lead Nigeria.
Obi said Nigerians should be allowed to freely choose their preferred candidate and urged opposition parties to put aside their political differences and unite in their efforts to “rescue Nigeria”.
“A Nigeria of unity and inclusion. We have a candidate who is contesting the presidency today: my dear brother Seyi Makinde. Is he qualified to be president? Yes,” Obi said.
“What we are doing today is to show you that, for us, we don’t have desperation. We want the people of Nigeria to make their choice. Whoever they choose, all of us will come together to build a new Nigeria.
“We can’t all continue the way we are going today. Our people are hungry. Our people are poor. Our people are insecure. Whoever wins, genuinely, from a free, fair and credible election, we all want to work together to save this country from collapse.”
Obi said Nigeria’s political class should move away from confrontation and focus on finding solutions to the problems facing citizens.
“We don’t want politics of quarrel, politics of disagreement. Let our quarrel be to feed our people. Let our quarrel be to pull our people out of poverty,” he said.
Makinde, Obi, and Atiku Abubakar of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) are among the opposition figures seeking the presidency in 2027.
Credit – The Cable
