Evang. Chinedu Obigwe (Akaekpuchionwa) and his APGA Media Warriors Forum have once again served Nigerians a toxic cocktail of half-truths, selective amnesia, and outright revisionism in their desperate attempt to shield Governor Soludo’s increasingly bitter attacks on Peter Obi.
Their latest screed against Distinguished Senator Victor Umeh is not a defence of truth—it is the anguished cry of a political machinery that has lost the moral high ground and the popular pulse of Anambra and the South-East.
Senator Umeh did not invent “envy and hate.” He simply stated an obvious political reality that every objective observer can see: Soludo has been obsessively chasing Peter Obi’s record—whether on governance legacy, national popularity, or electoral dominance in Anambra.
The fact that three classmates who graduated from UNN the same day in 1984 now find themselves in this public rivalry makes the peer-envy observation not only plausible but almost inevitable.
Umeh was present; he spoke from lived experience. Dismissing it as “cock and bull” does not make Soludo’s fixation on Obi disappear.
Let us address the 2010 fairy tale. The claim that Peter Obi fabricated a story about Soludo nursing presidential ambition in 2011 to secure “federal might” from Jonathan is pure invention.
Soludo was the PDP candidate imposed from Abuja. He lost fairly and squarely to the incumbent Obi in an election whose low turnout and irregularities Soludo himself publicly decried as “administrative rigging”—before congratulating Obi.
Jonathan did not hand Obi any special federal machinery; if anything, the federal climate was complicated. Revising that history to paint Obi as the envious plotter is the real tissue of lies.
On the 2022 APGA primary: Yes, Senator Umeh contested and lost to Dozie Nwankwo. That is democracy. What followed was not “reaching a deal of joining Labour Party with Peter Obi” as some shady transaction.
Obi reached out shortly after the primary, expressed disappointment at how a foundational APGA figure was treated, and invited him.
Umeh has repeatedly described the move as divine reconciliation after years of estrangement. He was returned unopposed in the LP primary and won the Senate seat. That is political agency, not fraud. APGA’s current guardians suddenly discovered the beauty of primaries only when it suited them to sideline Umeh.
The NDC primary allegation is equally hollow. Internal party processes are internal. What matters is that Senator Umeh remains a consistent, experienced voice for Anambra Central and the broader Igbo interest—something APGA under its current leadership has struggled to project nationally beyond state power.
Yes, Umeh and Obi had a bitter public falling-out during the Obiano years. Politics in Anambra has never been a tea party. Umeh has never denied past sharp words. What mature politicians do is reconcile when higher interests align.
Their reunion under LP in 2022 delivered results: Obi’s historic 90%+ performance in Anambra and Umeh’s return to the Senate. That is pragmatism, not “chameleon lifestyle.”
The same people who now scream “inconsistency” conveniently forget how many times APGA itself has shifted alliances and narratives for survival.
Calling Peter Obi a “politically packaged fraud” while Soludo courts Tinubu’s endorsement for 2027 is rich.
Obi remains the most popular political figure to emerge from Anambra in a generation—far beyond any incumbent governor’s reach, as Umeh correctly noted.
Soludo’s decision to back Tinubu will not magically erase that reality in 2027 any more than it did in 2023.
Senator Victor Umeh has every right to speak. He is a former National Chairman of APGA who helped stabilise the party in its critical years, a two-term Senator, and a man who has paid his dues.
He does not need Soludo’s permission or Obigwe’s lecture to comment on the politics of his state and country. The attempt to declare that “Umeh is not even supposed to talk when Governor Soludo is talking” reeks of the very authoritarian impulse that has alienated many from the current APGA establishment.
Nigerians are not fools. They can distinguish between principled political commentary and the frantic output of a media warrior tasked with protecting a narrative that no longer holds.
Senator Umeh’s intervention was timely, factual in its core observation, and reflective of the sentiments of millions who still see Peter Obi as the standard against which others are measured.
Keep shouting, Evang. Obigwe. The people are listening—and they are not buying the inversion of truth.
I remain a steadfast defender of progressive politics and accountable leadership.
–Pamela O.
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