By PAMELA EBOH, Awka

Governor of Anambra State, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has denied having any meeting with President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to stop the presumed winner of the February 25, 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) from reclaiming his mandate.

Soludo’s denial is coming on the heels of an anonymous report alleging that he held a meeting with Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and his son, Seyi Tinubu, at Imo State Government House, Owerri, on how to eliminate Peter Obi so as to stop him from reclaiming his mandate in court

The allegation reads in part: “As it stands, everyone should hold Soludo responsible if anything happens to Peter Obi. It will be recalled that Soludo showed his potent hatred for Peter Obi when he penned a 32-page of hatred vilifying Peter Obi and the youths.

“Soludo’s hatred for Peter Obi and everything he stands for is becoming glaring as things unfold. Yesterday, a helicopter entered Awka by 1:30am and took Soludo to a secret meeting at Government House, Owerri. The agenda of the meeting is Peter Obi and how to stop him physically, politically and otherwise.

“At the meeting at Owerri, Tinubu who came in company of Seyi his son lamented the growing popularity of Peter Obi and solicited the help of Soludo to eliminate him and pass the blame to IPOB and ESN. Soludo was given five million dollars in 100 dollars bills for the hatchet job.

“Soludo promised to eliminate Peter Obi and in the presence of Tinubu called his Security Adviser, AVM Ben Chiobi (Rtd) and briefed him on the task at hand. Soludo returned to Anambra State by 4:40am in the morning. This plot leaked through a patriotic Imo youth who was present in the meeting.

“Nigerians are by this revelation put on notice of the evil plots of Soludo and his cohorts. The Nigerian Inspector General of Police should wake up and protect Nigerians. Nothing should happen to Peter Obi.”

Soludo’s reaction which came in a statement through his Press Secretary, Christian Aburime and made available to journalists in Awka on Monday, described the allegation as false and very nauseating.

He dismissed the allegation as untrue, saying that Soludo had been in Anambra State engaging stakeholders for the Saturday, March 11 election.

Aburime urged the general public to disregard the allegation, adding: “Ndi Anambra should also disregard all the insinuations in the write up as mere falsehoods, they should come out massively and vote APGA this Saturday for the State House of Assembly election in order to sustain the developmental strides of the present administration of Governor Soludo.

“If certain people could sit somewhere and cook up a story of this nature, it becomes highly reprehensible and certainly deserved to be condemned by every right thinking person

“Ndi-Anambra, Ndigbo at large, at home and abroad, should disregard the information. It is a plot to cause chaos in the forthcoming state assembly election in the South-East geopolitical zone.”

Aburime called on the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, to immediately commence investigation on the alleged report with a view to fishing out the perpetrators

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