Labour Party reacts to the verbal attack on Peter Obi – See details

The Labour Party has responded to Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State’s verbal attack on Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate.

When Soludo declared that Obi knew he would not win the election, he sparked a flurry of controversy.

Several angry responses have since followed the outburst.

Chief Innocent Sunday Okeke (Duru Agumba), National Vice Chairman, South East, Labour Party, said in a statement made available to Track News on Wednesday that Soludo had allowed hatred and selfishness to cloud his reasoning.

Okeke claimed that the Anambra Governor, who had previously been highly respected, had now diminished himself as a result of Obi’s tirade.

“Anambra State Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, is highly regarded and adored by Ndi Igbo as one of the shining lights and great academia from the Igbo great kingdom’s highly rich culture.”

“He achieved, like many Igbo great men of today, rising from obscurity to become a human dynamo.”

“He was neither born with a silver spoon nor descended from blue blood, but he broke the poverty curse.” He rose from his rustic village of Isuofia in Anambra state’s Aguata LGA and flew across the world to pursue his dreams.

“With these, Ndi Igbo and Nigeria as a whole regard him as one of the great Igbo leaders of dignity and respect.”

“However, like the story of the crumbling packs, Professor Soludo has begun somersaulting from his pinnacle of dignity and respect, falling short of the people who looked up to him to be a shining example of the new Igbo leader.”

“Soludo, a brilliant professor of high repute, let his narrow-mindedness betray him,” he said.

“Hate is a wicked state of mind that, when possessed, can cloud one’s normal sense of reasoning,” Okeke added. And this is exactly what happened in 2014, when Prof. Soludo made an unreasonable outburst about Peter Obi’s Anambra government investment.