Director-general of the Peter Obi presidential campaign council Doyin Okupe claims that Chukwuma Soludo’s assessment of Obi’s chances does not follow “common sense.”
Okupe claimed that the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) spoke from a position of “political illusion” in an interview that aired on Channels Television on Tuesday, November 15, 2022.
“Ordinarily, I won’t join issue with Soludo, but so that people will not get disinformed by his very unsound judgment of the political status of Labour Party in the Nigerian context, that is the only reason why I will say one or two words,” he said.
“He must be living in another planet. I don’t know what is blinding him for him to say that there are only two people in this race — APC and PDP. Even a blind person and a young child of nine years old know that this is absolute fallacy.
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“Professor Soludo must be indulging in self-political delusion. Today, 90 percent of polls done say Peter Obi is well ahead of the other contestants. It is no longer news that it is a three-cornered race.
“Even in the three-cornered race, we are no longer the third force. We have now taken over and bypassed the two establishments and these two are now contesting for second and third positions. Professor Soludo’s pronouncement has nothing to do with reality or common sense.”
Okupe said it is a “ludicrous” for Soludo to say Obi will get 25 percent of the total votes cast in four states of the federation.
“I’m happy that he conceded that Peter Obi will win Anambra state. That is good news. Where he messed it up completely, and it makes the whole thing looks ludicrous, was when he said Peter Obi will get 25 percent in maybe four states of the federation. That is a joke,” he added.
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“Professor Soludo is a professor of economics, not a soothsayer or prophet. Definitely, he is not too grounded politically. The five states in the south-east, come rain and sunshine, nobody will beat Peter Obi.”
In a piece titled “History Beckons and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1)” published on Monday, Soludo said that Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, cannot prevail in the 2023 election.
Reactions on and offline to Soludo’s remarks about Obi’s chances in the 2023 election have been generated through social media.
Additionally, the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organization asserts that a “belaboured dissertation of an essay” published by Charles Soludo, the governor of Anambra State, against one of its predecessors, Peter Obi, is full of errors and personal animus.
