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Soludo Slams Obi’s Comment On APGA

Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has stated that the calls by the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, for people in the state to vote massively for his party’s House of Assembly candidates but later support Soludo are deceptive.

Obi, in a meeting with Labour Party National and State Assembly candidates in Anambra on Friday night, urged the assembly candidates to work with Soludo after the election.

Obi had also stated that Soludo remained his brother and that he should not be concerned about being impeached by the Labour Party-dominated assembly because the most important thing was to bring development to the state.

But Soludo reacting to the call, through his Press secretary, Mr Christian Aburime said the call was rather deceptive, inappropriate and meant to lay landmines for Soludo.

Aburime said: “That call was meant to deceive Anambra people. Obi cannot be talking about development in Anambra and also be talking about asking the Anambra people to elect lawmakers from an opposition party to work with Soludo.

“He worked with a legislature that was dominated by lawmakers from the PDP, when he first came in as governor, and he knows that it was not easy for him.

“He even suffered impeachment because of that, and we hope it is not the same thing he wants to set Soludo up for.

“Anambra people should go all out next Saturday and vote for APGA if they want the developmental strides of Mr Governor to continue.

“You can not be talking of development and at the same time talking of electing opposition politicians into the House of Assembly, it is not done. It is deceit.

“Anambra people supported Obi during the presidential election, and besides, Soludo refused to interfere as the people trooped out to vote for Labour Party, and that was even before Soludo made the environment conducive for people to come out and vote.

“We have voted Labour Party in the presidential election, but for the House of Assembly election, we are voting for APGA, and we want Anambra people to know so.”

Soludo and Obi have had a running battle on the choice of lawmakers in the next session of the Anambra House of Assembly.

Though there will be no governorship election in the state, Soludo is fighting to have the majority, if not all members of the 30-man assembly, while Obi who is the leader of an emerging political force in the country, wants to assert himself by using his influence to cause a higher number of lawmakers in the assembly

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