LEAVE PETER OBI, TAKE ON YOUR DUTY AS ANAMBRA'S GOVERNOR - SOUTH EAST GROUP TACKLES SOLUDO
The governor of Anambra State, Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo, according to the South East Revival Group (SERG), has "proven that he has lost understanding of priorities," urging him "to first take Anambra State to the Dubai status he has been promising the people during all his electioneering campaigns since he left office as the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)."
SERG was responding to remarks attributed to Governor Soludo, who criticized Peter Obi and asserted that the Labour Party nominee for president in 2023 cannot win.
Chief Willy Ezugwu, SERG's president and national coordinator, highlighted in a statement released on Tuesday, "this is not the first time predictions on Peter Obi's victory at elections came and failed."
The South East faction claims: "It was common knowledge in Anambra State in the build-up to the 2010 governorship election the popular prediction was that Professor Soludo as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), would defeat Peter Obi of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
"In fact, most prominent Anambra people predicted that Peter Obi won't win a second tenure even before the governorship primary.
"But on February 7, 2010, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Peter Obi the winner of the 2010 Anambra State gubernatorial election, where he roundly defeated his former schoolmate at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo.
"So, Governor Soludo knows that his predictions against Peter Obi have never come to pass, not even his own election victory prediction in 2010," stated the group, which advised Governor Soludo to "face his job of governing Anambra State and ensure that he fulfilled his campaign promises.
Furthermore, the group noted: "So far, Soludo has not been able to solve a single major problem of the Anambra State since he assumed office. As a matter of fact, his administration has turned Anambra into one of the unsafest states in Nigeria, going by recent security realities, including the consistent attacks on Soludo's hometown."
The group attributed his outburst against Peter Obi to plain jealousy while attributing the rise in violence in the state to his poor management of security.
The group additionally believed: "The opposition has hired the Anambra State Governor to do some dirty political jobs from Peter Obi's home state in their efforts to cause a crack in the solidarity and support the Labour Party presidential candidate is enjoying in the entire South East."
"Peter Obi is running for the President
of Nigeria, not the President of Igbo. So, to measure Peter Obi's presidential victory from the lens of Igbo votes like Governor Soludo [did] is the most myopic political calculation," SERG
maintained.
The group warned Governor Soludo that he must address governmental problems, particularly insecurity, because the people of Anambra will decide his fate in the upcoming governorship election. Using his four-year scorecard, state.
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