Makinde doesn't have it rough like @PeterObi did.

People always forget that Obi had a very unique turbulent first 5yrs as governor.

For the first 4yrs, he had zero (0) party cum loyal member in the state Assembly.

7months after he reclaimed his mandate, he was impeached... https://twitter.com/EuginhoCortez/status/1335958010812919808
That impeachment happened just immediately after Obi launched the Anambra Integrated Development Strategy (ANIDS) program, a program he spent the early months of his tenure to conceive and design. His achievements in Anambra state could be narrowed down to his faithful....
implementation of ANIDS.

That impeachment in many ways set back whatever Obi was trying to kick-start, and it nearly split APGA. The wasteful Etiaba administration that succeeded him after the impeachment squandered the huge savings Obi had made for the program...
He spent the next 4 months fighting to nullify the illegal impeachment.

When he got back, he had to fight INEC to preserve the four-year mandate that Ndị Anambra gave to him.

INEC went ahead to conduct the governorship election which Andy Uba "won".

Two months after coming...
back from impeachment, Obi left office, only to come back after two weeks after the Supreme Court sacked Uba.

All the while, he hadn't prepared any budget. That of 2006 was done by Ngige. 2007 was by Etiaba. The one of 2008 that was done by him was passed in July with some...
conditions, and that was after major protests by Ndị Anambra.
Also remember that then was the height of PDP's impunity. Every elected officer and almost all notable politician in Anambra then was of the PDP. Obi was literally like an orphan, and they used their 'Abuja' links to deal with him.

It was a battle for preserving his government,
there was no time for Politicking or building political structures/movement.

They wouldn't even permit his second tenure. The results of that election was already written, only for @GEJonathan to be made the Acting Prez few days to the election. GEJ insisted on a level playing..
ground, scattering their rigging plans. That is why up to this moment, Soludo haven't forgiven GEJ for 'preventing' him from becoming governor of Anambra state.

Majority of the landmark achievements of @PeterObi, he actually achieved them in his last 3yrs in office. That was....
because he had more than enough members in the house from his Party APGA.

Makinde does not have these to deal with. He also doesn't have an Ngige polluting people's mind about the ideals of his style of governance. Back then, Ngige had a cult followership unmatched in Anambra...
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