Soludo is trending because in an attempt to ridicule Peter Obi with the SABMiller brewery, the Anambra government shot itself in the foot.
Last month on Arise TV, Obi said the brewery is the highest indigenous tax payer for the state.
This morning, Anambra Govt published a document to prove Obi wrong.
According to the document, the Brewery sits at 6th, while five banks took up the the first 5 spots; First Bank, Zenith, UBA, Access Bank and Fidelity Bank. As highest tax payers.
With Fidelity Bank being the 5th paying ₦1.1bn while SABMiller paid only ₦656M in two years. — making Obi’s claims seeminly false.
Because according to the June 6th Arise interview, contextually, he referred to state owned investment returns.
Incidentally, the general context around both videos were; Industries and Development. — Which banks are neither. The banks are not HQ’d in Anambra either.
In the second interview on Channels on July 6th, he spoke generally failing to indicate whether he was referring to state owned, or generally. Which Anambra is leveraging upon.
However, Obidients argued that this is a self sabotage for Soludo, because it proves that since Peter Obi left office in 2014, the state has been unable to attract or own any major business, excluding the existing ones brought by Obi.
Infact, unfortunately the document further emphasizes Peter Obi’s claims.
Because, firstly, the list has 3 of Obi’s State Investments. He invested in Access Bank $100M & ₦24bn and $56M & ₦12bn in Fidelity bank.
In 2012 he also invested $12.24M for about 10% equity in the South African owned Intafact Beverages Limited, pka. SABMiller in Onitsha.
Which later became International Breweries PLC, after SABMiller got acquired by AB InBev.
Figures and returns which Charles Soludo calls peanut numbers, inconsequential and with almost no impact in the state.
