‘Selling Pepsi, promoting Coke’ — Shehu Sani taunts Obi over Makinde campaign appearance
Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has taken a swipe at Peter Obi over the former Anambra governor’s attendance at the unveiling of the presidential campaign office of Seyi Makinde, Oyo State governor, in Abuja.
Sani, in a post on X on Tuesday, suggested that Obi was promoting another presidential candidate despite being the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC).
“Peter is selling Pepsi, and he is doing promo for Coke,” Sani wrote.
Obi had attended the unveiling of Makinde’s campaign office on Monday, where he described the Oyo governor, who is the presidential candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), as qualified to lead Nigeria.
Speaking at the event, Obi said Nigerians should be allowed to freely choose their preferred candidate, while urging opposition parties to set aside their political differences and work together 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.
He added, “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.”
According to Obi, Nigerians are grappling with hunger, poverty and insecurity, stressing that whoever emerges from a free, fair and credible election should be supported by all to address the country’s challenges.
“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,” he said.
Obi also called on Nigeria’s political class to move away from confrontation and focus on finding solutions to the challenges 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 opposition figures seeking to contest the 2027 presidential election.
