The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, has reacted to the article in which Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo dismissed him as a joke, saying that he lacks the capacity and structure to win the 2023 presidential poll.
In the article titled ‘History Beckons and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1)’, Soludo further disclosed that Obi cannot win the forthcoming election, adding that Obi’s candidacy would make winning the election easier for the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.
Soludo had earlier in his interview with Channels TV, stated that Obi’s investments in Anambra State were worth next to nothing.
Taking up issues with Soludo during the alumni association of the Lagos Business School on Tuesday, Obi informed the gathering that Soludo remains his senior brother and advised him to do better than he did.
According to Obi, he governed the state as a trader and urged Soludo to perform better than him since he is a professor.
Responding to the claims of Soludo, Obi said: “My brother is a brother and remains my brother. We’re very close. I remain prayerful for him. Of other things which I didn’t succeed, God has given him the opportunity to do it and succeed.
“For me…if there is anything pending, governance, governance you don’t finish. People are still in government in America. So, you stop where you stop. Other people will continue from there. I don’t look back. He is the governor of my state. He is my senior brother. He is even more intelligent than I am. He is a professor and I am a trader. He knows more.
“So, he will be able to do this better than I’m doing it. I have done my little work as a trader. Now the professor is there, he will do his own thing as a professor. The schools that I didn’t roof, you roof them. That’s our government goes.”
Regarding the claim that his investments for Anambra are now worthless, Obi replied that the company is still doing well.
He said, “When you spread your investment, some will go up, some will come down. But overall, the company is still there. The company is still doing well. It’s still part of a global chain and everything. I needed to explain it not because I’m defending comments made by my brother.”
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