Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s recent remark on Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate Peter Obi has sparked further controversy, with some leaders of the South and Middle Belt Forum taking a swipe at him yesterday.
The group has also boasted that no amount of disparaging remarks about Obi will affect his chances of winning the 2023 Presidential election, emphasising that the crises in some major political parties are an added benefit for the Labour Party.
In a recent interview with Channels Television, Soludo stated that the investments Obi made for Anambra State while governor were now “worth next to nothing.”
He has also in an article titled, ‘History Beckons and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1)’, noted that the LP candidate does not have the necessary structure in place to win the presidency.
But the Chairman, of South-East, South-South, South-West and the Middle Belt Forum, who is also the chairman of the Labour Party, FCT Presidential Campaign Council, Olisa Uzoewulu, said: “Soludo is insulting us by saying that Obi cannot win the election. People are going to make choices this time. Nobody will hoodwink them. We are going out there to campaign for change. And the change is to make choices to move us out of consumption to production.
“Obi will win with the people’s vote. God has remembered this country. Obi’s victory will surprise all.”
Meanwhile, the group has appealed to Nigerians to be patient for the release of the party’s campaign manifesto.
“Why are we in a hurry to get a document when we have 100 days to the election? Why don’t we give him time to work on a comprehensive document that he would be held accountable for, than making promises like those in the past that were never fulfilled? Uzoewulu asked.