When Obi mentioned that he would demolish the structure of Criminality that have held the country back, I knew he would run into murky waters of entrenched structural Stakeholders and criminal cabals. These structures have no religion of ethnicity, it cuts across all the geopolitical regions, the political elites and their enablers who have contributed in making the country the poverty capital of the world.

For an undiscerning mind, Arthur Eze recent outburst using the platform of what should be purely a cultural event devoid of politics, the sacred Ofala festival at Ukpo Kingdom, might seem a speech made under the influence of the magical Rafia Palm wine consumed in large quantity at such occasions.

However, a deep look at Arthur Eze antecedent would clearly show that Obi’s message of dismantling the evil structures holding the country down has ruffled some feathers like that of the Prince of Ukpo Kingdom.

As an introduction, “Arthur na Ukpo” as he is fondly known is the Owner of Atlas Oranto Petroleum with more than 22 Oil lease licences mostly in Nigeria and a few on the West African Coast. The Atlas Oranto Petroleum is a marginal operator that has never grown in any way since inception but mostly used as a front for securing oil blocks, lifting petroleum products and selling at the spot market.

Arthur was a military apologist that helped the Babangida and Abacha government launder money which made him humongous rich and multi millionaire in US Dollars.
Arthur is also into government contacts and procurement. The Enugu Port Harcourt road and the Enugu to Onitsha roads were serially awarded to construction companies fronted by him during the military, PDP and APC governments respectively which he never completed.

Arthur Eze sponsors Politicians across the country with set down conditions that highly unfavourable to the public. He demand not only 100% of his investment in politics, the governor or politician he sponsors are stuck to make regular remittances to him from the revenue accrual at source.

This singular act of sponsoring governors have contributed to many of these folks not paying salaries, mortgaging their state and not delivering infrastructure.
Exception of the newly installed Soludo government, he had had running battles with every other administration in Anambra mostly due to taking contracts with full payments which he never completed.

Clearly Peter Obi’s policy and antecedent never favoured and will not favour him if he becomes President. He prefers Soludo that was rumoured to have gave him dollars at discounted rates and helping him when he was at the helm of affairs at Central Bank.

As a self centered man, in one of President Buhari visits to the East, Arthur Eze was openly heared lobbing Buhari to hand over to Governor David Nweze Umahi of Ebonyi State but when that venture failed, he seamlessly switched to Atiku so that the looting of the national treasury would continue and with the hope that Atiku would handover to Soludo.

Arthur is now disingenuously framing Obi’s run as Igbo venture which is clearly not true. His motive is to put Obi campaign as an ethnic venture and possibly put off some of pan-Nigeria supporters.

Arthur craves to be called “Ozo Igbo Ndu” literarily translated as “One that saves Igbos” but singularly done more harm to the Igbo interest he is current parroting. The embezzlement of fund made for road construction and other amenities in this vital area of the country that highly deficit in Infrastructure is not about saving Igbos but connotes more of a devourer.

Criminal structures like Arthur Eze, his cohorts and enablers across the country must be dismantled for this country to breath. We need accountability and folks like Arthur needs to be probed or forced to return all the fund they have taken for the uncompleted road projects across the country and indicted for criminal negligence due to hundreds of deaths on account of accident from the neglected roads.

On a final note, Arthurs rejection of Peter Obi candidacy has actually rekindled my faith in PO campaign on taking Power from the tiny cabals that have held us down and hand it back to Nigerians.

Authur Eze fatherly but frank advice for Obi

°When he told me about his ambition, I asked him the states he thinks he can win in the west and in the north – he told me; but I was not convinced. I told him he cannot not win; so that he would not waste his time and money.”

The same way the obidense are trying fruitlessly to tell us that Obi will win Sokoto, Gombe, Jigawa, Lagos, Katsina etc & discerning Nigerians are not convinced

I don't understand the outcry. Arthur eze has just one vote.

Peter Obi will win

The criminals that are holding Nigeria down do not want Obi to win. Interestingly, Nigerian masses have decided to vote for Peter Obi and there is nothing anybody can do about it. Peter Obi will become president of Nigeria after the 2023 General election.
People are tired of suffering.