A Reverend Father with the Catholic Church of Nigeria, Kelvin Ugwu has slammed the Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo over his consistent remarks against Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate for the Labour Party.
Ugwu, who is a priest of the Missionary Society of St Paul of Nigeria (MSP, is currently on mission in The Gambia.
In a post made on his Facebook page, the Reverend Father, who has been a strong critic of bad governance in Nigeria described Soludo as “the Anambra Professor” desperate about becoming Nigeria’s president.
While noting that Soludo’s ambition is not a bad one, Ugwu said it is unfortunate that the governor believes he can achieve his goal to become presisent by denigrating Obi’s effort.
According to Ugwu, by Soludo’s calculation, Obi’s shot at the presidency will ruin his ambition as a Southeast politician to become the president.
Ugwy wrote on Facebook, “The Anambra Prof wants to be president of Nigeria, which is not a bad thing. But his professorial calculation is that Peter Obi is a threat to his ambition.
“For if Peter Obi ever becomes president before him, it will mean that the South East has been fully represented, and if rotational politics is anything to go by, it will take almost two decades before the South East will be considered again.
“Plus the fact that Obi will always be used as a yardstick to measure how Anambra is governed,” Ugwu noted.
Further stating that the points listed unsettles the current Anambra governor, Ugwu claimed that Soludo would rather support President Bola Tinubu’s re-election or Atiku Abubakar than Obi in the 2027 presidential poll.
“The professor does not feel good about that. So you can understand why Prof will rather support Bulaba or Atiku. It is just that Prof no too get sense like that. He can’t even hide his jealousy and hatred. If you look very well, Prof has kois kois, it is just that it is in the recessive gene,”