Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Tuesday, fired back at the Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo, over a strongly-worded letter he wrote about his 2023 presidential ambition.
Soludo’s letter released on Monday afternoon, literally set the internet on fire.
The Anambra Governor, in the 4008-word piece, dismissed Obi, one of his predecessors as a joker in the 2023 race.
He said the LP standard bearer would only deplete the votes of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party and widen the chances of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress.
Soludo, who declared that Obi can’t win the election, also traced the LP presidential candidate’s multiple defections from the All Progressives Grand Alliance to PDP and Labour Party, which he described as “transit camp” for aspirants who lost primaries.
Healso lambasted Obi’s supporters, referring to them as social media mob.
But Obi in his reaction while speaking to the alumni association of the Lagos Business School at an event on Tuesday, said Soludo remains his brother.
The LBS Alumni Day with the theme, ‘The Leadership Imperative’ is one of the platforms hosting contestants to answer questions and share their vision for the country.
According to Obi, “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.”
“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.”