Insult, hate and bitterness are the words that rule Nigeria’s politics. It is often said that if you don’t want to know who your mother’s first boyfriend was, don’t dabble into politics.

The governorship election campaign in Anambra is already taking a dangerous dimension as contestants have abandoned agenda-based campaigns and are resorting to mudslinging, insults and throwing tantrums.

As revealed, the running mate of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Uche Ekwunife, recently got dirty with the state governor, Professor Charles Soludo.

In a video circulating online, Ekwunife fired back at Soludo who had reportedly claimed that she obtained a certificate from an unaccredited and unrecognised university in the US.

Refusing to be bullied, she asked the governor to go to court if he claimed that her PhD certificate was fake. She advised the governor to go to Nnamdi Azikiwe University and the University of Calabar to verify her Master’s degree certificates and first degree, respectively.

She also said that it is evident that the governor’s professorship is just a departmental award.

Matters did not just stop there, as she also called the governor several unprintable names, while advising his wife to buy him a deodorant.

Ekwunife further warned the governor to let her be, adding, “We are practising social democracy in Nigeria, and all political parties know their candidate. Soludo has contested for governor of Anambra State twice before Willie Obiano imposed him on Ndi Anambra.”

Soludo’s administration, she said, has done nothing good for Ndi Anambra other than harbouring insecurity that has claimed the lives of many in Anambra, including two House of Assembly members.

Ekwunife described Anambra as a peaceful state before Soludo assumed leadership. According to her, people were usually excited to come to Anambra before Soludo became governor, but the reverse is now the case. According to her, the people are now fleeing from Anambra because of danger.

“All the bushes in Anambra state are full of corpses. Anambra was a state where people came every Thursday to buy, but now people are running away from Anambra. You have failed woefully as a Governor.”

However, our source revealed that some political leaders and concerned stakeholders in the state have intervened to arrest the situation before it gets out of hand. (THISDAY)