By Izunna Okafor, Awka
Barely three days after the fiery response of the Anambra First Lady, Dr. (Mrs.) Nonye Frances Soludo, to the infidelity allegations against her and other verbal attacks against her family her husband and children, the deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Senator Uche Lilian Ekwunife, has dissociated herself from the said allegations and offensive publication, and tendered an apology to the Governor’s family.
The apology, contained in a statement signed and made available to newsmen on Tuesday by Ekwunife’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Tony Ezike, is coming after Mr. Soludo had given Senator Ekwunife a 72-hour ultimatum to retract the said allegations and tender an unreserved apology or face legal action. The media space had been abuzz over the last few days, with reactions and counter-reactions coming from different angles as a result of the claims and defamatory allegations credited to Ekwunife.
However, in the statement on Tuesday, the Ekwunife Campaign Organization disowned and condemned the malicious article which alleged that Mrs. Soludo had children for Chief Chris Uba, stressing that the offensive write-up did not emanate from Senator Ekwunife or her camp.
The statement acknowledged that although the former senator has at different times been maligned and disparaged by the Governor’s media team, she would not descend to the level of fabricating such “falsehoods.”
In what many have described as a bow to pressure and in response to that ultimatum by First Lady, Ekwunife, through the statement, also apologized to Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo and the general public for any distress or misgivings arising from the altercations of recent days.
She further urged her supporters to remain focused on the campaign issues and resist the temptation of further escalating verbal hostilities with the First Family or anyone else in the political space.
