The Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi managed to win the hearts of many Nigerians before and after the election.
Bringing fame to an unpopular party, Mr Obi made it to the top three in the presidential election that produced Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as president-elect.
But, Mr Obi is not satisfied with the results of the election. He is currently seeking redress in court.
However, there are reports that some individuals have been contracted to assassinate the candidate to prevent him from contesting the results in court.
Soludo Alleged Meeting With Tinubu
Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State was said to have been contracted to assassinate Mr Obi but the governor has refuted the claims.
The reports allege that Mr Soludo met with Mr Tinubu, the president-elect, and his son, Seyi, in Imo State.
Afterwards this allegation began to fly that they had struck a deal with the Anambra State governor to stop Mr Obi from reclaiming his mandate through the court as well as “assassinate” the LP candidate.
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The report claimed that the governor was paid $5 million to “assassinate” the LP candidate and push the blame onto the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) group.
IPOB is a prohibited group leading the agitation for an independent state of Biafra which it wants to be carved out from the South-east and some parts of the South-south.
A Brother And Friend
In a message by the governor’s spokesperson, Christian Aburimo, Mr Soludo said the claims were “infantile, nauseating, mischievous and unnecessarily inflammatory”.
According to him, as governor of Anambra, he is the father of the people of the state and will not “plot or collude to harm any lawful citizen of the state including Mr Peter Obi,” whom he said was “a brother and friend”.
The governor claims the allegation is a plot to cause chaos in the forthcoming state assembly elections in the South-east.
“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,” Mr Soludo said.
