EXPOSED: How Obi Betrayed Ojukwu, Dumped APGA, by Soludo
By Nafisat Bello,
The last may not have been heard about the seeming ‘face-off’ between Anambra State Governor, Charles Chukwuma Soludo, and one of his predecessors, Peter Obi.
The former, in a no-holds-barred Channels TV interview on Friday, ‘belittled’ the investment strides recorded by the Obi as Anambra Governor, between 2006 and 2014.
In a lengthy statement he personally signed, and which was released to newsmen on Monday, Soludo, a former Governor of the Apex Bank, described Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, as one leader whose words are not his bond.
According to him, Obi, had once told Ndigbo that the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, remains the only vehicle through which Igbos would organize to engage the rest of Nigeria, politically.
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“He was said to have sworn to Ojukwu and publicly, that he would quit politics the day he leaves APGA. But the rest is history,” he said.
Compared to the treatments meted out to LP even in other South East States, Soludo, emphasized that his government has provided the atmosphere for Obi and his supporters to operate freely in Anambra without any molestation, “and allowed his billboards which are, in many places, wrongly placed almost on the roads”.
His words: “We have shown him tremendous goodwill – which he did not extend to the same Labour Party, when he was Governor (Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, as LP Governorship Candidate in 2013 was denied the use of Ekwueme Square for his rallies)”.
The Anambra State helmsman, said that though he wishes Obi well and even prays for him, but the LP standard-bearer knows he can’t and won’t win next year’s presidential election.
“He knows the game he is playing, and we know too; and he knows that we know. The game he is playing is the main reason he didn’t return to APGA,” Soludo said.
