Why Some South-East Politicians, Businessmen Are Against Obi – Obidigbo

A foremost industrialist, Chike Obidigbo has condemned some politicians and businessmen in the South-East for being against the presidential ambition of the Labour Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi.

According to Obidigbo, the politicians in the region who are against Obi are doing it for certain reasons.

Obidigbo disclosed that one of the reasons why they are against the former governor of Anambra State is because of the past political animosity and unmet expectations from Obi as Governor.

While reacting to Charles Soludo’s recent statement where he claimed that Obi does not have the chance of winning, Obidigbo said Soludo’s statement emanated from old political animosity than objective analysis.

He noted that Soludo had not forgotten his disqualification by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) screening committee in 2013.

Obidigbo in an interview with The Guardian said, “It is within Soludo’s right to express his misgivings about Obi’s presidential ambition. But this is like a payback for the 2013 episode in the build-up to APGA’s governorship primary.

“I think the governor should learn from me because I deployed more than N5 billion in the campaign to ensure that the governorship ticket of APGA was zoned to Anambra North.”

He noted that the search for a consensus candidate from my zone, which Obi demanded, saw Obidigbo’s emergence as the first choice, and not Chief Willie Obiano, who was finally adopted as the preferred candidate by the party.

“My attitude to these things is that power comes from God. Since that experience, I have continued to plead with everybody to let bygones be bygones because there are things that are beyond human comprehension. I lost money, and suffered personal and business challenges, but I do not hold anything against Obi.”

He maintained that issues of competence, experience and capacity, which place Obi above his rivals, are enough to command popular support from his home base, stressing that issues of fairness, justice and equity, which Obi advanced in the agitation of zoning the governorship in Anambra also favour him.