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

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Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, has stood by his earlier statement that any political figure who pledges to serve only a single term in office should undergo a mental health check.

He addressed the issue on Wednesday during an interview on Arise Television’s Prime Time programme, explaining that his statement was made within the framework of ongoing zoning discussions in Anambra’s political scene.

Soludo pointed out that such promises have been made in the past, only to be rejected by voters who saw through the tactic.

He said politicians often make one-term pledges as a strategy to win public favor, even when their policy agendas indicate 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.

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According to the governor, making such declarations is a clear insult to the people’s intelligence. He insisted that any candidate making such a promise is either intentionally misleading the public or unqualified for leadership.

These comments came in the wake of a recent promise by former Labour Party presidential contender, Peter Obi, who stated that he would serve just one term if elected president in the 2027 election.

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