Anambra Central Senator, Victor Umeh, has cautioned Governor Chukwuma Soludo of the state not to commit an abomination against the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in the name of politics.
Umeh warned Soludo that committing an abomination by destroying Obi would lead to a fight.
The lawmaker issued the warning while speaking at a gathering in the state, which was captured in a viral video.
He also insisted that any Igbo person who vows never to vote for Obi is an enemy of the race.
According to Umeh: “People are saying that we have to support another person; if we do that, we are destroying ourselves. I’m an Igbo activist, and you can hear my voice in the Senate on all issues of national importance and particularly those that affect the Igbos.
”Peter is our conscience in this election. Any Igbo man who stands up to say we will not vote for Peter Obi is an enemy of the Igbo people, no matter who the person is.
”Nobody can try it here, I have been hearing a lot of things going on in this state, this government I helped in installing it, nobody came here to be governor of Anambra State since 2003 without my impute, this one that his serving, I was a principal contributor to his ascending that office, he is holding that office on trust for all of us.
”Anything he does in that office, he must discharge it with honour and nobility, and it’s not by sabotaging our own brother.
”I’m saying it so that anybody who sees him can tell me that we don’t want to fight, but he should not commit what is called an abomination by wanting to destroy his brother in the name of politics.
”Nobody is saying support Peter Obi from the other side; everybody from the other side is saying support Tinubu, but we are saying. Let us stand for the truth, Peter Obi; this is the time, and if he makes it, the Igbos have made it.”