'Envy, hate behind Soludo’s attacks on Peter Obi' - Senator Umeh

Senator Victor Umeh has accused Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo of acting retired of envy and hatred towards statesmanlike campaigner of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Mr Peter Obi.

Umeh claimed that Soludo was trying to surpass Obi's governmental record, insisting that the erstwhile Anambra politician remained much fashionable than his successor successful the authorities and crossed Nigeria.

The legislator made the remarks connected Tuesday portion fielding questions connected Channels Television's Politics Today programme.

Umeh, who said helium attended the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, alongside Obi and Soludo betwixt 1980 and 1984, suggested that their shared world inheritance mightiness person contributed to what helium described arsenic adjacent envy.

He said, “He (Peter Obi) cannot beryllium drawn to what is called the adjacent envy and hate. You know, each of america were successful the assemblage together. Myself, Soludo, Peter Obi. We were astatine the University of Nigeria from 1980 to 1984, each of america graduated the aforesaid day.

“So sometimes erstwhile you spot radical talk, they speech retired of possibly adjacent envy. He (Soludo) is moving aft Peter Obi's record.”

The legislator further argued that Obi remained much fashionable than...