The Labour Party (LP) presidential campaign team has
explained why Next International Ltd, a company owned by Peter Obi, the
standard bearer of the party, was shut down.
The company was said to have been closed by the United
Kingdom government over its failure to submit its annual accounts.
Reacting, Diran Onifade, head of the Obi-Datti media office,
in a statement on Thursday, said the company was voluntarily liquidated by its
owners and not by the UK authorities as it was no longer in operation.
“Agents of the political opposition unsettled by the
high-rising profile of the Labour Party flag bearer were only trying to make
political capital out of the development,” Onifade said.
“When our principal
insists that you go and verify facts about him and the information he dishes
out, he didn’t say go and falsify facts.
“For the record, the entity was 99 per cent owned by Next
Nigeria International Ltd and established as its buying office in the 90s and
Peter Obi was its CEO.
“At the time Peter Obi became governor of Anambra State in
2006, his wife assumed management of the winding down of the company and about
one year ago requested that the company be dissolved under the voluntary strike
off of the entity on grounds of dissolution and being inoperational, which is
normal in winding up an entity.
“Peter Obi has
consistently maintained that he is no longer involved in any Next-related
business. The LP candidate by his antecedents in Anambra state for eight years,
in private ventures where he held sway his records among the pack in this race
for the Presidency, puts him miles ahead in moral rating.”
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