The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi on Saturday clarified his statement on attending the same school with former Governor of Rivers, Peter Odili while
in Port Harcourt, last Thursday.
Obi in a statement said, his comment about Odili attending the same Christ the King College (CKC), Onitsha was misconstrued by some mischief-makers to mean that former Governor of River was his classmate.
The statement posted on Peter Obi’s Twitter page clarified:
“I couldn’t have said that former Governor Odili was my classmate, I said that he was a great footballer in my school that we all cherished and had good memory of his football exploits when we entered the school.
“I was in CKC from 1973 to 1978 and Dr Peter Odili left before I entered the school. He was such a fabulous footballer whose image still loomed large even in our time especially when my primary school was very close to CKC.
“The truth is that the primary school I attended Santa Maria school/Holy Trinity School were both owned by the same Catholic Church that owns the Christ the King, CKC, Onitsha. In fact both primary schools were feeder schools to the CKC and large number of pupils that passed through them ended up in CKC for secondary education.”
