Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has stated that the support of the political party at the National level by the All Progressives Grand Alliance ( APGA) is in conformity with the injunctions of the Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC ), Mr Peter Obi, who initiated it while a Governor under the party.
Recall that Obi, while as Governor under APGA, had announced that the party would not field any Presidential candidate but would support the Presidential ambition of Goodluck Jonathan, which was endorsed by the party as it were.
To this end, Soludo queries why he should be attacked and disparaged for supporting President Ahmed Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress ( APC), describing it as not only a selective blame game but a high degree of hypocrisy on the part of his traducers.
According to the statement by the Commissioner for Information, Dr Law Mefor, it is only right and proper if it were done by Peter Obi but sacrilegious if it is Soludo.
He decided the neck-deep habit of Obi remarketing his predecessors and successors by not seeing anything good in their respective administrations and priding himself as the best despite huge financial inconsistencies about his regime.
“There is this dangerous trend in our public discourse whereby there are two sets of standards: one for everyone else and another for H.E. Peter Obi”
“This is one former governor of Anambra who is not on record to have ever complimented any of his predecessors or successors in office”
“He spent eight years in office demarketing Dr Mbadinuju and Dr Ngige and has spent the last 13 years with his paid media team, dozens of others, daily demarketing his successors”
“Again, since H.E. Peter Obi left APGA in 2014, he has been campaigning and doing everything to kill the party”
“In 2021, when our governor contested for his first term, H.E. Peter Obi was literally the campaign manager for Mr Val Ozigbo of the PDP, but our governor won by a landslide”
“Again, last year in 2025, H.E. Peter Obi toured Anambra with his preferred candidate for governor, George Moghalu of LP, against our governor, and again Gov. Soludo won by a landslide”
“For his supporters, H.E. Peter Obi has the right to choose who to support and campaign for, even when he was not on the ballot, but for our governor to dare to exercise the same right and support anyone else but Peter Obi, he must be crucified”
He also recalled that in the year 2011, H.E. Peter Obi and APGA adopted President Jonathan of the PDP as its presidential candidate and established the policy that APGA would work with and support the party/government at the federal level.
“Then it was okay because Peter Obi did it, but now it is sacrilegious for Gov. Soludo and APGA, which Peter Obi wants dead, to adopt President Tinubu as APGA’s presidential candidate”
“Currently, our government is being blamed for debunking the obvious lies of Peter Obi regarding the state of Anambra finances he left behind. No one blames him for his inconsistencies”
“What one hears is: “Yes, we know that he is lying, but must you be the one to expose the lies of a brother — even if his lies are hurting you?” Hypocrisy and multiple standards everywhere! ”
“These do not advance the cause of public accountability and consistency in our quest for strong ethical politics and governance”
He observed that, “It is really funny to see our former governor gloat that ‘no other governor in Nigeria saved as he did Yes, no governor in his right senses and faced with such humongous challenges as Anambra faced at the time will be sadistic enough to keep the money in the bank while citizens, including pensioners, are dying of poverty and insecurity.”
Reacting to the interview on Arise TV where Obi presented documents about the loan involvement by his administration, Soludo contended that;
“We also observed with keen interest the absolute silence on the purported N2.13 billion Ecological Fund in the television appearance, despite this being the core of his recent challenge, where he mentioned with specific details: the account number, name of the bank, and the branch where he stated categorically that he left “over N2.13 billion” as at the date he handed over on 17th March, 2014″
“The State is deeply interested to know the whereabouts of the said money, as the account he mentioned with First Bank was neither an ecological funds account, nor does it contain the N2.13 billion either as inflow or existing balance at any time within its active lifespan. This is in line with the bank statement we obtained from the bank”
“For the avoidance of doubt, First Bank in its letter of 16th September, 2026, confirmed that:”
“Account 2018779464 which Mr. Obi quoted as holding N2.13 billion Ecological Fund is actually the ANSG IGR Consolidated Account, that is, account for Internally Generated Revenue — IGR”
“As of 17th March, 2014, the balance on that IGR account was not close to N2 billion, and at no time in its active life from 2011 to 2018 did it ever carry N2.13 billion as inflow or balance”
Soludo demanded that “Since the money is not in the First Bank account as claimed, where is it? Or is the money actually missing? This question remains unanswered.”
“As a responsible government and committed to ethical governance and politics, we remain ready to provide information that advances public interest. For H.E. Peter Obi, it is a matter of word, character and integrity”
“Without any provocation, you threw a self-imposed challenge. Now that the facts challenge your character and integrity, you have no choice but to take the path of honour: tender an unreserved apology to the government and people of Anambra State and Nigeria and move on. You don’t continue digging when you are already at the bottom of the hole”
Soludo stated that: “We won’t encourage you to honour your pledge to quit your campaign; we wish you well. Except of course, if you truly believe in the motto of one of the commercial banks that says: “We are Fidelity: We keep our word!” he concluded.
