A leaked audio recording, allegedly featuring the voice of Senator Uche Ekwunife, deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has sparked controversy in Anambra State.
The deputy Governorship candidate of APC for Anambra Election, Uche Ekwunife (IYOM) in a phone conversation with a man named Ifeanyi, revealed that she is going to fabricate things against anyone that fabricates things about her.
The man at the other end of the phone told her that she created a room for all the saga that is going on on social media and she quarried the man for not defending her and for saying that she should be investigated.
“You are supposed to be defending, if I am your sister wouldn’t you be proud of me? Why did you ask them to investigate me beyond repair?”
She mentioned that Soludo wants to damage her reputation and that she will attack Soludo’s wife if Soludo continue attacking her.
“You want to damage me and I will not keep quiet, if he attacks me, I will attack his wife, if he disgrace I will disgrace his wife, what will they say about me that haven’t been said before?. Soludo’s wife worked with Mbadinuju and she also slept with Mbadinuju”
Ekwunife made a statement that sounds like a curse at the end of the conversation.
According to her:
“Any man that criticizes me, none of his daughters will get to my position in life and it is a curse I am placing on everyman”
Uche Ekwunife admitted that some of things she said and will say about Soludo and his wife are fabricated. This her response to Soludo’s bold claim that she parades a fake PhD, seems like an intentional attempt to use dirty talks to cover factual issues, because she never debunked the claim of parading fake PhD.
In the previous video she made, she told Soludo to go and verify her first degree and master degree from the University of Calabar and Nnamdi Azikiwe University(Unizik) respectively, but she didn’t specifically mention anywhere to go for the verification of her Phd rather she asked Soludo to go to Court.
So far, Governor Soludo’s aides have refuted the claim that Mrs Nonye Soludo ever worked with Mbadinuju. Analysts note that the timing of the leak, coming as campaigns intensify ahead of the governorship election, reflects the fierce contest expected at the polls.
Civil society groups have urged politicians in Anambra State to focus on issue-based campaigns, warning that character attacks and unverified allegations risk distracting voters from key governance concerns in Anambra State.
