To hell with Soludo! His former ally, Hon. Nwafor declares
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Hon. Tom Eke Nwafor (Onyefeze Umunze), a former ally of Governor of Anambra State, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, has declared a total withdrawal from his old friend, saying he ‘made mistakes for ever campaigning for him’.
Hon. Nwafor made the declaration in a piece made available to News Band while narrating his relationship and issues with Governor Soludo.
Nwafor went down memory lane down to the days of Soludo as the Chief Economic Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo, as well as the Chairman of the National Planning Commission.
Calling Soludo “a useless Igbo man”, he wondered how he will, because of personal interest, refuse to support the ambition of the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Gregory Onwubuasi Obi, which he tagged “divine intervention”.
Onyefeze Umunze said that ‘it will never be well with Soludo’.
He wrote”
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“Ogbuehi, I have no personal grouse with Soludo and cannot have because I have since taken him for whom he is to me.
Before he became the Chief Economic Adviser to president Obasanjo and Chairman National Planning Commission for over a year, he was always in my office at Enugu where we would be discussing about his ambition to become the governor of Anambra State.
After his appointment as the Chief Economic Adviser, I went to him to help give my wife a job at that critical time in my life but he didn’t. Yet he remained my friend.
When he was appointed the Governor of Central Bank, I sent him a congratulatory message in which I jokenly wondered if that was not the Governor we had been dreaming about?
And while he was there for five years, I went to him for any assistance, including a job for my wife and he didn’t oblige me. I repeat, he neither offered my wife job nor gave me any contract or financial help until he came out after five years.
But we remained friends and I headed his campaign in my local government and was also a deputy Director in his campaign in 2010/2011.
You were also a witness to the campaign I did for his becoming the Governor of Anambra State now in spite of all I said above.
People who knew how close we were and who tried to link up with me during his electioneering campaigns can testify here that the first thing I used to tell them was this my life story with the man followed by a warning for them not to put their hope on him. Many of them can now vindicate me. Yet he remained my friend.
But one thing, and only one thing, has made me to now hate the man with passion: His attack on Peter Obi’s presidential ambition because of what I know that happened between them in the past for which I personally begged him to forgive and forget but he refused.
Anyone who sees what is going on in Nigeria, especially the condition of the Igbos in Nigeria, and being an Igbo but refused to support Peter Obi’s ambition in this presidential race, whether he will win or lose, remains my enemy for life, and God knows that I mean what I have said.
I fought the Nigerian/Biafran war at the age of 18 years from 1968-1970. And since the end of the war in 1970, the Igbos in Nigeria have suffered untold deprivation, marginalisation and hardship in a country they are forced to call their own.
The Army Generals who headed the Nigerian Army at the time of Biafran defeat, and whom have been described by the press as the “owners” of Nigeria, for reasons best known to them, took a decision not to allow any Igbo man to rise to rule Nigeria. Late Dr Alex Ekwueme was almost there in 1999 but they scuttled that golden opportunity and handed power over to one of their own.
And now that something unusual is happening about an Igbo man’s ambition to become the president of Nigeria, and the “owners” of Nigeria, Obasanjo and his group of Generals who had called the shot in Nigeria’s leadership question since after the war, appeared to be in support, a useless Igbo man will, because of personal interest, refuse to support this divine intervention. It will never be well with such a person.
In 2010/2011 when I was campaigning for Soludo, a now retired director of the Central Bank close to my family told me that if I knew what Soludo did to the Igbos working in the Central Bank for the five years he was the Governor, I would never mention his name to her or ask any Igbo man to support his governorship ambition. I didn’t understand what she was saying then but now I do.
Ogbuehi you know me. I am a self-made man and that is why I have no regards for any human being who plays God because what I am today is made possible by God alone.
So to hell with Charles Chukwuma Soludo!
I have made my mistakes for ever campaigning for him in life.” Read more.
