Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo has denied taking money in exchange for publicly dissing Labour Party candidate Peter Obi (LP).
He said that he would have become a trillionaire if he had accepted the bribe.
The previous week, Soludo wrote a lengthy essay in which he said that Obi would never be elected president of Nigeria.
He further said that Obi’s investment in Anambra is today worth practically nothing.
Obi said that since Soludo was a professor rather than a dealer, he ought to perform better in the state.
However, Soludo and Obi met at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church on Thursday during the Thanksgiving mass conducted for Most Rev. Paulinus C. Ezeokafor.
The two men were seen embracing each other while exchanging pleasantries.
Soludo insisted there was no rift between him and Obi, only political differences.
“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.
“So 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. If Soludo is into bribery, I would have been a multi-trillionaire now,” Soludo explained.
