Ndiigboworldwide previously reported that the British government had dissolved a corporation that reportedly belonged to the former governor of Anambra State for failing to file its yearly reports.
After receiving a first and second notice of a "compulsory" strike-off, the company known as Next International (UK) Limited was deleted from the public record in September 2021.
Ndiigboworldwide reported that the corporation mostly owned by the former governor of Anambra State failed to submit its annual reports for the year 2020, resulting in its dissolution in 2021.
The LP campaign team stated in a statement released on Wednesday by its Head of Media Office, Diran Onifade, that people blaming Obi for the delisting of the company are seeking political benefit and are attempting to slander its candidate's name.
Onifade claimed that Obi, the business's former CEO, quit when he was elected governor of Anambra State in 2006, and his wife took over corporate administration at that time.
He said that Obi has always maintained that he is no longer involved in any Next-related activity, stating that the opposition should verify the facts rather than fabricate them.
The statement reads as follows: "Anything might be manufactured to justify the enormous people and material resources used to hunt for and uncover anything negative against the high-flying Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi.
"We have observed with bemused cynicism as operatives of the political opposition, agitated by the rising profile of the Labour Party's presidential candidate, rushed around and made fools of themselves over the removal of Next International (UK) Limited from the record in 2021.
"Normally, this sort of mischief and impishness would merit no response, save from the credulous among us, who are the true target of this handicap.
"For the record, the firm was 99% owned by Next Nigeria International Ltd., and its buying office was founded in the 1990s; Peter Obi was its CEO. In 2006, when Peter Obi became governor of Anambra State, his wife assumed management of the winding down of the company and, approximately one year ago, requested that the company be dissolved under the voluntary strike off of the entity on grounds of dissolution and inoperationality, as is customary when winding down an entity.
Peter Obi has often said that he is no longer participating in any Next-related activities.
"When Peter Obi urges that people should go and verify the facts about him and the information he provides, he did not mean that they should go and fake the facts.
"The LP candidate's antecedents in Anambra state for eight years, in private ventures where he had power over his records in this run for the Presidency, puts him leagues ahead in moral rating."
(Source: www.naijanews.com)
