‘I’ll Fight To Win Anambra Election With The Last Drop Of My Blood’
A former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, on Wednesday, said he would fight with the last drop of his blood to win the state election come November 18.
Obi, who decried the bad governance by the incumbent Governor Willie Obiano, said that he regretted that what he laboured to put in place in the state in his eight years in office was destroyed.
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He swore that he will stop the re-election of Governor Obiano, adding that defeating an incumbent governor was “nothing strange” to him.
Speaking during a stakeholders’ meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party held in Awka, the Anambra State capital, Obi said, “I will fight in this election aggressively. I will fight with the last drop of my blood. I will fight to win this election the way the PDP has not won any election before.
“I’m the beneficiary of the PDP confusion when I was governor on the platform of APGA. Today, I’m 100 per cent in the PDP. That confusion must end. We must win the November 18 poll; nothing can stop us from doing that. It’s a fight I must win for the PDP.
“I’ll be in Anambra State all through from today (Wednesday), to accomplish this goal. In 2002/2003, I contested against an incumbent governor and defeated him; so there is nothing strange to me in defeating an incumbent governor.
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“If all the money I kept for this (Obiano’s) government, both in dollar and naira were properly utilised and our legacies sustained, Anambra will be on top of other states in development by now.”
Reacting to Obi’s claim, Obiano’s media aide, Oliver Okpala said, “Obi cannot speak from both sides of his mouth. In 2013, he introduced Obiano to the people of the state and said he (Obiano) had the best managerial acumen and political sagacity to take over from him.
“Thus, he happily handed over to Obiano and Obiano had proved to the people of the state what Obi said about him by his performance that everybody is testifying to. So, what is Obi saying?
“There is no amount of lies Obi will tell about Obiano that will make the people to change their minds about the November 18 poll; they are all for Obiano,” Okpala stated.
