By PAMELA EBOH, Awka

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra State has dismissed claims by one TK Ekwudayo that the state Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, was allegedly financially induced to tune of $28 million to run down the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi.

According to the National Coordinator APGA Renaissance (AR), Chief Uchenna Chukwuka, who spoke to journalists in Awka on Wednesday, the story is not only false but unfounded.

He said the story was aimed at implicating Governor Soludo and painting him in bad light, following his recent submissions about the ambition of Peter Obi.

Chukwuka described the writer who introduced himself as an investigative journalist in the story as a Journalist who does not exist, but hiding under the guise of a fake name to justify the payment by their sponsors who do not see anything good in Governor Charles Soludo.

The writer had in his story captioned “Gov Soludo Exposed: How the Governor Received $28 Million cash to Pull Dpwn His Brother Peter Obi” said that the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma played the role of a go between to convince Soludo to discredit the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi.

The group said: “It has come to the notice of this body that some faceless and sponsored elements masquerading as investigative Journalist claiming false insider information from the All Progressives Congress, APC, are out to implicate our able governor Prof Charles Soludo with some baseless and false allegations of receiving the sum of $28 Million to run down the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi.

“Also the faceless self-acclaimed investigative Journalist further alleged that both Uzodimma and Soludo have already extorted the sum of N10 billion as the first trench of the payment while the sum of N10 Billion would be paid after he had concluded the second assignment.

“In the light of the above, it has become instructive that we make the following resolutions for the purposes of clarity and brevity.

“That the said investigative Journalist does not exist and is hiding under the guise of a fake name to justify the payment by their sponsors who do not see anything good in Gov Charles Soludo.

“That the author of this spurious report and allegations is only being clever by half by linking the APC governor in the South East with his satanic report in order to give their story acceptability before the reading public.

“That the person of an international status, and an eminent person in the mould of Gov Charles Soludo is more occupied in giving good and populist governance to the people of Anambra state than reducing the office of a governor to that of a pedestrian blackmailer"

The group further contended that the manner, and recent practice of the supporters of the Labour Party in adopting the Nazist style of ‘Hitler Mob’ is more of their cutting off their noses to spite their faces and ultimately burn their fingers and de-marketing their candidates.

It noted that Nigerians are too enlightened and highly educated to fall for cheap blackmail and flagrant display of ‘tout status”, saying that the general public cannot buy it.

It added: “We in the All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA have our own Presidential candidate as well as National Assembly and State Assembly Candidates who are more popular and more credible, hence cannot be cowed into playing anti party politics by supporting candidates of the Labour Party or any other party for that matter.

“The era of Nazist style of Hitler’s Mob has gone and Nigerians are too enlightened and educated in buying into such gambit.”

Update news