No Office Worth Bloodshed —Soludo

Posted by African Examiner Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria, News From The State Friday, April 2nd, 2021

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said that no office is worth shedding of blood not even the life of a chicken

He disclosed this when Anambra State Police Command arrested five suspects and beefed up security around him.

Soludo stated that he would be shocked if Wednesday’s attack during a town hall meeting was politically motivated and targeted at him because no office is worth the life of even a chicken. Soludo is a front line aspirant for the November 6, Anambra State governorship election on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.

Soludo in an interview programme on Channels Television, recalled that the gun battle lasted for over 15 minutes during a town hall meeting at Isuofia in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State in which three police orderlies were killed.

The former central banker, who urged immediate freedom for the abducted commissioner, said: “I don’t want to pre-empt the investigation that is ongoing because I understand that some of those apprehended are also providing useful information, so I wouldn’t like to pre-judge the outcome of that investigation.

”But for some that want to promote the attack on me, it is not just the Anambra way. In Anambra, we talk, we go extra miles and we still remain friends. I am friends with virtually everybody contesting for the office. So, I don’t think it is worth the blood of even a chicken let alone that of a human being. So I will be shocked that it was politically motivated and it was aimed at me directly. But part of the thing fuelling this thing is the abduction because the person they abducted has relationship with me and the government of the state.

“We pray for the repose of the souls of the three policemen who were senselessly killed.”