The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, on Thursday responded to the scathing attack against him by Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State.
Obi said that while he is a trader Soludo is a Professor who is older and more intelligent and should therefore continue with the provision of effective governance in the state.
He said that God had given Soludo the opportunity to handle and succeed in areas in which he (Obi) did not perform successfully.
Obi said that while he has done his work as a trader, Soludo can do his things as a professor and excel.
He said, “When you spread your investments some will go up some will go down but overall the company is still there, the company is still doing well. It is still part of a global chain and everything.
“I needed to explain it, not because I am defending against the comments made by my brother. My brother is my brother and remains my brother very close. I remain prayerful for him.
“Of other things of which I did not succeed God has given him the opportunity to do it and succeed For me.
So if there is anything pending, governance is 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 a governor of my state, he is my senior brother, he is even more intelligent than I am because he is a professor and I am a trader.
“So he will be able to do things better than I am doing it. I have done my little as a trader, now the Professor is there and he will do his own as a professor.
The schools I did not roof he will roof them, that is how government goes.
Another person comes, does his own…”
Soludo had attacked Obi in a lengthy article on Monday, claiming that he would not win the presidential election.
He said that Obi’s ambition for the Presidency was nothing more than a dream.
He also took on Obi’s claim of making huge savings for Anambra State during his tenure, saying that governments exist to save lives and not to save money.
But the Obi-Datti Campaign Organization of Mr Peter Obi, in its reaction said that there is no time to respond to or pay attention to Governor Charles Soludo’s diatribe.
According to the organization, the Presidential hopeful is preoccupied with convincing voters that a new Nigeria is possible through rigorous campaigns.
The LP Presidential Candidate’s team spoke on Tuesday through a spokesperson of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation, Ndi Kato.
Also, Ozonna Soludo, one of the sons of the Governor of Anambra State, Prof Charles Soludo said that Mr Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, is the best among the candidates contesting the presidency in 2023.
Ozonna said while he does not want to be dragged into politics, he prefers Obi to other candidates.
The 28-year-old UK-based artiste disclosed this in a comment on Facebook in response to a social media post criticizing his father for scathing attack on Obi and opposing his presidential ambition.
He wrote “I am not an extension of anybody. I have my own opinions and have always said I think Peter is the best candidate. All this has nothing to do with me”. He had said
