The spokesman for Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Yunusa Tanko, has reacted to claim made by Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, that Obi knows he can’t win the 2023 presidential election.
WITHIN NIGERIA had earlier reported that Soludo, in an article on Monday, titled, ‘History Beckons and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1) said Obi can’t win 2023 presidency because he lacks the necessary structure.
Speaking with PUNCH, Tanko accused Soludo of being used by the opposition to scuttle Obi’s presidential ambition.
He said, “Soludo feels he is larger than life and that if it is not him, it should not be anybody. But God has chosen Obi and there is nothing he can do about it. He should just go and lick his wounds.
“The fact still remains that it is Obi on the ballot. He does not have the capacity to determine whether Obi will win or not. As we are seeing it, Obi is winning a landslide victory.”
On whether Soludo has an axe to grind to Obi in the build-up to the 2023 elections, Tanko dismissed the thought, saying the target was to suppress the LP’s growing profile in the region.
He said, “Soludo is just allowing himself to be used. It is an orchestrated attempt to weaken our own base starting from Anambra to other states in the South East. That was the strategy.
“I don’t know why he is trying to risk everything he has for this particular negative cause. But we will rely on the love that would be shown by Obi’s people to triumph during our campaign there.”