Doyin Okupe, director-general of the Peter Obi presidential
campaign council, says the analysis of Chukwuma Soludo, former governor of
Anambra, on the chances of Obi has nothing to do with “common sense”.
Okupe spoke on Tuesday during an interview on Channels
Television.
On Monday, Soludo, in an article titled ‘History Beckons and
I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1)’, said Obi, presidential candidate of Labour
Party (LP), cannot win the 2023 election.
Soludo’s comments on the chances of Obi in the 2023 election
have elicited reactions on and off social media.
Responding to Soludo’s comments, Okupe said the former
governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) spoke from a position of
“political delusion”.
“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.
“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.”
Speaking further, 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.
The LP campaign director-general expressed confidence that
the party will win the presidential election in all the south-east states.
“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.
“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.”
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