$28m To Blackmail Peter Obi Should Make Me ‘Extremely Wealthy’ – Soludo Laughs

• Claims tirades against LP candidate political

BY ONYEKACHUKWU IBEZIM – The Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, says collecting $28 million to blackmail the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, will make him an ‘extremely wealthy’ man.

Laughing off insinuations alleging that he received huge incentives to de-market the former Anambra State Chief Executive, Prof Soludo said;  “If I had truly received $28 million to blackmail my brother, Peter Obi, I should be extremely wealthy as of today.

“For those forging blackmail and all that, including the one they said I collected bribe to say what I said, I asked them to bring it so I will use it to construct roads for Anambra people. If Soludo is into bribery, I would have been a multi-trillionaire now.”

Governor Soludo made the submission in a chat with newsmen in Awka, the Anambra State capital after the Thanksgiving Mass for Most Rev. Paulinus C. Ezeokafor who celebrated his 70th birthday at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church.

According to the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor; “Today is very special. When we came into the service, it was the first time, Obi and I are meeting at a public event and in a Catholic Church which the two of us belong to. I think it was divine.

“When I came in, I quickly went to where he sat and hugged him, people watched with bewilderment as if it was a drama, asking if it was not the same people quarrelling.”

The governor claimed that his recent public comments on Obi were purely political statements and hinted that he has spoken with Obi about two times just last night.

Maintaining that contrary to speculations in the public space, politics has not crept into their relationship as brothers, Prof Soludo said; “There is no rift between Obi and me at a personal level. Nobody snatched each other’s wife. What appears to be the rift between us is fundamental political differences. Nothing else.

“On the fundamental differences we have, we are going to meet in the next few weeks. We’ve agreed to discuss and iron out our differences”.

Interestingly, the LP Presidential flag bearer and the Anambra Governor were both seen in a warm embrace while exchanging pleasantries at the Most Rev. Bishop Ezeokafor’s 70th birthday Thanksgiving Mass.