The All Progressives Grand Alliance has told one of the frontline aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, to drop his ambition of unseating Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo.
Okonkwo, during the inauguration of the new APC secretariat in Awka, last week Saturday and at different fora, had boasted of unseating Soludo, if given the APC ticket, insisting that only he has the capacity to govern Anambra in the next dispensation.
Reacting to Okonkwo’s comments in a press statement issued on Saturday (Today), the National Coordinator of APGA Media Warriors Forum, Chinedu Obigwe, said that even if Okonkwo gets the APC ticket, he will be roundly defeated by Soludo in the November 8 governorship election.
The statement partly reads, ‘What we discovered about Okonkwo is that he likes rubbing shoulders with Soludo even when it is clear to Nigerians at large that he cannot compete with Soludo. He is only forcing himself to be on the same level as Soludo, but he is not and can never be. As we said in one of my recent write-ups, Okonkwo will be defeated again by Soludo in the forthcoming November 8 governorship election.
‘He will not get the APC ticket, and even if he defects to any unknown party to contest the election, he will receive the same treatment that Anambra electorates gave him in the last 2021 governorship election. The reason for saying this confidently is because Obiora Okonkwo is not a politician who makes calculated political moves, hence the reason he has not been able to win any election in Anambra since he started contesting for election in the State.
‘As for him challenging Governor Soludo to a public debate, I will advise him to first scale the difficult hurdle of clinching an APC ticket as their candidate for the 2025 governorship election or as usual defect to an unknown party to clinch their ticket for the purpose of contesting the 2025 governorship election so that he will be qualified for a public debate with Governor Soludo.’
The APGA chieftain insisted that as of today, Okonkwo does not deserve Soludo’s attention for debate, adding that the governor is more focused on the delivery of dividends of good governance to the Anambra people.
‘In all honesty, anybody saying that Soludo is not working in Anambra risks being stoned by Anambra people because as it stands today, what the governor is doing in the State is being commended by people of the State.
‘The likes of Obiora Okonkwo and his opposition politicians cohorts that are saying that the governor is not working are portraying themselves as pathological liars before the general public.
‘Even the insecurity problem that they were politicising and using to blackmail the governor is being tackled. The launch of ‘Operation Udo Ga-achi’ has yielded fruitful results and has solved the Anambra insecurity problem.
‘Soludo has truly justified the confidence reposed in him by Anambra electorates and re-electing him for a second term in office will serve as a reward for the good work he is doing in our State,’ the statement added.
