The Anambra State Government used its official X account on Monday to urge voters to resist supporting Peter Obi in the 2027 general election. The post targeted Obi by name and cast him as a threat to APGA, the party that backed him in the state.
The message linked the appeal to its own political history. The government wrote, “A betrayal alert for Ndi APGA. Since 2014, Obi has had one mission: to destroy the party that made him.” It added, “Do not be deceived by a man who abandoned his own house. Anambra is APGA. Ndi APGA, defend your home, resist the NDC.”
Anambra State Government post
The post also said, “In 2015, while President Tinubu stood with APGA, Obi backed the opposition to bury us.” That line ties the warning to a dispute over who supported the party at a time the government says its base was under pressure. The office of the New Media to Governor Charles Soludo managed the account that published the message.
The timing matters because Charles Soludo had already publicly backed President Bola Tinubu in 2025 ahead of the 2027 elections. He said his support rested on a 22-year friendship and Tinubu’s economic reforms, and he described him as “in high spirits, hale and hearty.” APGA then endorsed President Bola Tinubu in July as its preferred candidate for the 2027 general elections.
Soludo, Tinubu, APGA
Soludo said, “President Tinubu is my friend; he has been my friend for 22 years now and counting, so you don’t deny your friend. I support him, and I’m impressed by the bold steps he has taken, particularly in the economy and structural reforms. We’re taking the right steps, and we need to stay the course.” That position sits beside APGA’s July endorsement and makes the Monday warning to Obi part of a wider line already drawn inside the party’s orbit.
The public dispute also overlaps with a separate disagreement between Obi and Soludo over the financial obligations linked to projects from Obi’s time as governor. Obi has said he is not interested in returning to the governorship, even if the Constitution were amended, and he has said the facilities were mainly World Bank and International Fund for Agricultural Development programmes negotiated by the Federal Government and accessed by participating states through subsidiary arrangements.
Peter Obi and Charles Soludo
Obi had also said he was silent in recent days because he was mourning his late elder brother and friend, Chief Okey Ezeibe. The Anambra government’s latest post puts him at the center of a political break with the state’s ruling structure while APGA has already moved to Tinubu’s side.
What remains for voters is straightforward: the state government has now told APGA supporters where it stands, and it has tied that stance to a 2014 and 2015 record it says shows Obi turning against the party. Unless Obi or APGA answers that charge directly, the Monday post will stand as the clearest public marker of the split before 2027.
