Peter Obi: ‘They came with sweetener’ – Soludo defends ‘psychiatric evaluation’ comment

Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, has defended his
remark that any politician who promises to serve only one term in office
requires psychiatric evaluation.

Speaking on Wednesday while fielding questions on Arise
Television’s Prime Time programme, Soludo said his comment was made in the
context of ongoing debates on zoning in Anambra politics.

He noted that similar promises had been made in the past but
were quickly rejected by the electorate.

According to him, politicians often attempt to lure voters
with pledges of serving only a single term, even when their manifestos suggest
otherwise.

“You see, I said that in the context of the debate going on
in my state, in a context where you have established a process of zoning, and
somebody wants to cut short that particular zoning. They come with this
sweetener, ‘oh if you give me this and then I will only spend this time.’ They
know they were being disingenuous.

“They came with that argument in 2017 when my predecessor
was running for a second time. They came here and telling Anambra, or some
people promising us, including some people on the terrain today, Anambra people
were quick to see through the disingenuity of that kind of promise, and of
course, voted massively. The fact is that we won 21 over 21 local governments
in that election. Nobody bought that crap, as it were.

“And now again, we are in for another election, and some
people are again, imagine in the same state I am from the south and the north
just finished, handed over to the south, and the south will serve its time, and
then it will go to central. And now some people from the South senatorial zone
are showing up because they realize that it does just…’oh, don’t worry if you
vote for me’… So they are swimming against the tide. ‘If you vote for me, I will
spend only one term’.

“Meanwhile, you see the manifesto that they are rolling out.
You realize that even if they were to spend even 20 years, they wouldn’t even
scratch it. I mean, it’s just, I don’t know how to describe it. So you’re just
taking the people to be…you’re just playing at the people’s intelligence. You
just think everybody is a fool.

“If anybody’s saying that it’s either he is just being
deliberately deceitful or there is probably something not working right
upstairs to take the entire people of Anambra State as fools, you know, to
think that the entire people are fools, not to see through the lie, not to see
through the deception, then the person must have a mental issue,” Soludo said.

The governor maintained that such promises insult the
intelligence of the people, arguing that anyone making them is either being
deceitful or unfit to hold office.

The governor’s comments followed a recent pledge by former
Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, that he would serve only one
term if elected president in 2027.

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