Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, says he will reach out to Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra, on how to address the myriad of challenges facing Nigeria.
Obi made the disclosure on Monday during a meeting with the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), held at Protea Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos state.
“He (Soludo) knows and he has the solution. So, I need to consult him to help me,” Channels TV quoted Obi as saying.
In an article published on November 17, titled ‘History Beckons and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1)’, the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Soludo had said the LP presidential candidate does not have the necessary structure in place to win the presidency.
Prior to the article, the Anambra governor, in an interview on Channels Television, had said the investments by Obi for Anambra state, when the latter was governor, are now “worth next to nothing”.
Responding to the criticism of Soludo, Obi had said government is a continuum, and as such, Soludo can do better for the state since he is now in office.
“For other things which I didn’t succeed, God has given him opportunity to do it and succeed. For me, if there is anything pending, governance doesn’t finish. You stop where you stop; other people will continue from there,” Obi had said.
“He is a governor of my state; my senior brother. He’s even more intelligent than me. He is a professor; I’m a trader. So, he will be able to do things more than I have done it.
“Now, the professor is there, he will do what I didn’t do. The school I didn’t roof, he will roof them.”