The Director-General of the Allied Peoples Movement Campaign Organisation, Felix Hyat, has urged Nigerians not to fear a presidency led by Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, saying the presidential candidate has what it takes to reset the country and address its numerous challenges.
Hyat, who stated this on Wednesday in Abuja while addressing participants at the inauguration of the North-Central zonal state coordinators of the Makinde/Daura Campaign Organisation, expressed confidence in the ticket’s capacity to provide the leadership needed to change Nigeria’s fortunes.
He said Nigeria could no longer afford to continue on its current path, citing insecurity and economic hardship among the challenges confronting the country.
The Makinde Campaign DG stated, “This journey begins at the polling units and moves to the ward headquarters, local government headquarters, state headquarters and, ultimately, the national level. Politics is local, and our work must be localised. Our mandate is to go to where the people are and share the most important product we have in Nigerian politics today: our presidential candidate, Governor Seyi Makinde.
“Those who have spoken have done justice to who he is. The Makinde/Daura ticket is a fantastic one. We have never had such a ticket in this country, and all of us who have been called upon to participate in this important mission of actualising it must count ourselves fortunate. My task is simply to stress the obvious and remind us of certain things.
“The first reminder is that our candidate is contesting on a party platform. That platform has a banner, a symbol and leaders at various levels of our national constitutional structure. Therefore, the importance of state chairmen of the party remains very significant and must be respected at all times.
“There is no party that can boast of being a party without candidates. Therefore, as far as we are concerned in this office, the second most important group of people is our candidates. The third group is made up of those of us responsible for delivering the mandate.”
