Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi
Eko Hot Blog reports that the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has told the Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, to do better than he did when he governed the state.
He was reacting to Soludo’s scathing criticism of his presidential ambition.
The Anambra governor had said it was impossible for Obi to win the 2023 presidential election.
He accused the LP presidential candidate of betraying his former party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), by boosting the chances of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with his candidacy.
On Tuesday, Obi responded to Soludo’s criticism, while speaking at the 2022 Lagos Business School Alumni Conference in Lagos.
He noted that the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) should be able to govern Anambra better than he did since he (Soludo) is a professor.
“He (Soludo) remains my brother. For other things (that) I did not succeed, God has given him the opportunity to succeed,” Obi said.
“For me, you don’t finish governance. You stop where you stop and other people continue from there. He is the governor of my state, he is my senior brother and he is even more intelligent than me because he is a professor and I am a trader.
“So he knows more, so he should be able to do things better than I am doing it. I have done my little own as a trader, now the professor is there, he should be able to do his own as a professor. The schools I didn’t roof, he will roof them, another person will do his own too.
“The one they said is worthless, we invested N3.5 billion in International Breweries…that facility is there employing directly and indirectly over 10,000 Anambarians. The shares was at a time being sold at N50, today the shares is about N5 or so.
“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 is still part of the global chain and everything. I needed to explain it not because I am defending comments by my brother.”
The LP presidential candidate added that he left the office without owing any contractor, supplier who had executed their job.
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