Seyi Makinde urges Nigeria’s South-East to reject identity-based voting
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Punch
Seyi Makinde, Oyo State governor and presidential candidate for the Allied Peoples Movement, has urged voters in Nigeria’s South-East not to vote on ethnic or religious grounds. At a meeting in Enugu, he outlined his recovery programme and challenged the idea that the region exclusively supports Peter Obi, Punch reports.
Oyo State Governor and Allied Peoples Movement (APM) candidate in Nigeria’s 2027 presidential election, Seyi Makinde, has urged South-East voters not to let ethnic or religious identity guide their vote. He was speaking at an APM town hall meeting in Enugu, Punch reports.
Makinde outlined the four pillars of his party’s programme: reviving the economy, reorganising the security system, reforming education and restructuring the socio-political landscape. He said the APM had consulted Nigerians in the country’s six geopolitical zones and that their concerns would be reflected in its programme. The manifesto was due to be finalised over the weekend, ahead of its planned presentation on 4 November 2026.
Nigeria’s presidential election is scheduled for 16 January 2027. In 2023, Peter Obi, then the Labour Party candidate and now a candidate for the Nigeria Democratic Congress, came first in the South-East states, a region with a predominantly Igbo population.
