Politics

Obi to Soludo: You’re intelligent than me, develop Anambra as professor

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has reacted to the governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo’s comments on him, saying the governor should develop the state more as a professor.

It would be recalled that Soludo said the investment of the LP presidential candidate in the Anambra State Government is worth next to nothing, stressing that he is not aware of any investment in the state by Obi and his other predecessors.

The governor, in an article on Monday, said Obi, who was the governor of Anambra State from 2006 to 2014, can’t and won’t win the 2023 presidential election.

He stated that Obi knows the fact that he won’t make impact in the 2023 elections.

However, the LP presidential standard-bearer, while speaking at the 2022 Lagos Business School (LBS) Alumni Conference in Lagos on Tuesday, said Soludo is more intelligent than him, adding that he knows more and will be able to do things better than him.

Obi, who described the governor as his brother, said: “He (Soludo) remains my brother, we are very close. I remain prayerful for him. For other things which I didn’t succeed, God has given him opportunity to do it and succeed.

“So, if there is anything pending, governance doesn’t finish, people are still in government in America, so you stop where you will stop, other people will continue from there.

“He is the governor of the state; he is my senior brother, he is even more intelligent than me because he is a professor, I am a trader, so he knows more and will 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 will do his own as a professor, the schools I didn’t roof he will roof them, that’s how government goes,” the former governor stated.

He further stated that he left the office with the savings of N75 billion, adding that his administration saved $50 million each in Access, Diamond, and Fidelity banks with an interest rate of 6.5%.

Obi stressed that he left the office without owing any contractor, supplier who had executed their job.

“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.

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