Charles Soludo handpicked as PDP governorship candidate in contentious move
WRITTEN BY SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORK    
FRIDAY, 09 OCTOBER 2009 17:18


The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has picked controversial former Central Bank governor, Charles Soludo, as the party's candidate in upcoming Anambra state gubernatorial elections scheduled for February 6, 2010.  

Our sources said the choice of Soludo materialized after much behind-the-scenes intrigues and maneuvers carried out by PDP operatives with ties to Umaru Yar’adua and his wife, Turai Yar'adua.

The PDP congress was moved to Abuja in what a PDP official told Saharareporters was “a strategic move to avoid the impact of a court injunction granted against the party by an Anambra State high court.” Then the congress was moved from the party’s secretariat in Abuja to the Shehu Yar'adua Center when word reached Turai Yar'adua that some PDP party officials had received large sums of money from Chris Uba to make his brother-in-law the candidate of the party.


Uche Ekwunife
The PDP’s attempt to hold primaries to determine the party’s candidate was marred by widespread shooting and other forms of violence perpetrated by thugs hired by different candidates or their sponsors. Abuja-based attorney, Kayode Ajulo, an eyewitness at today’s meeting to choose a “consensus candidate” said party members “conducted themselves in an unruly manner at the Yar’adua Center.” The witness said, “the members of the self-styled largest party in Africa behaved worse than gangsters. They broke anything breakable, even shoved and assaulted three police officers.” 

Saharareporters had earlier reported that Charles Soludo had enlisted Mrs. Yar’adua’s help to secure the governorship in order to buy himself immunity from prosecution in a myriad of fraud cases dogging him. The latest controversy around the former CBN governor has to do with a bribery case involving Securency, an Australian currency manufacturer.


Soludo reportedly demanded and received bribes from the firm before steering contracts to the company to mass-produce polymer currency. A source familiar with the case also told Saharareporters that Mrs. Yar'adua was implicated in the bribe-for-polymer scandal.

But while Soludo’s candidacy excites Mrs. Yar'adua, a source in Abuja told us that a political shocker might await Turai. The source of the shocker is in the candidacy of Mrs. Uche Ekwunife, a member of the House of Representatives who trounced Mr. Emeka Etiaba in the primaries yesterday to become the candidate of PPA. Our sources said Mrs. Ekwunife might be the joker from the Chris Uba camp.

Said the source: “Since Chris Uba has failed to put in his brother-in-law, his group may work for the victory of Mrs. Ekwunife – who will then return to the fold of the ruling party the same way Imo State governor, Ikedi Ohakim, was brought into office under another party and then decamped to the PDP as soon as he stabilized.”

Uche Ekwunife, a former youth corps member in 2000, notoriously dated former Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju of Anambra. She made an incredible fortune as a front for the former governor. She was found to be in possession of N2 billion in her private account, and later resigned from Standard Trust Bank to join politics, with all her loot intact.

Source:
http://saharareporters.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3916:charles-soludo-handpicked-as-pdp-governorship-candidate-in-contentious-move-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=18

The start of another political game in Anambra state soon to be followed by assassinations, so lets keep our fingers crossed has it unfolds

KShow1
How many political assasinations have you recorded in the East? We are not talking of the south west and its killing mentality. Igbos fightand bicker like any normal person would, but we do not kill ourselves for politic like the wetie people of SW. Ok?

Nchara:

KShow1
How many political assasinations have you recorded in the East? We are not talking of the south west and its killing mentality. Igbos fightand bicker like any normal person would, but we do not kill ourselves for politic like the wetie people of SW. Ok?

Bro, tell them .

@post
The emergence of Charles Soludo is what Chuba Okadigbo termed political arithmetic . . . . .However, Soludo is the best candidate PDP can produce in Anambra state.
It is now a war of three titans in Anambra state . . . Charles Soludo Vs Chris Ngige Vs Peter Obi . . . What an interesting line up.
Damn! I really enjoy Anambra politics.

Is it not Ekweme's name i heard on stv as their Pdp gov.
What r u guys sayin

[size=18pt]Another big goof by almighty sahara reporters.[/size]

o boy!

just saw this on my RSS on vanguard.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/10/10/anambra-guber-race-soludo-emerges-pdp-candidate-anosike-running-mate/

kshow1:

The start of another political game in Anambra state soon to be followed by assassinations, so lets keep our fingers crossed has it unfolds

Nobody has been assasinated for elective position in Anambra, get your facts right.

All other states should follow suit.

the era of intelligent and liberation is here.

Obi Vs Soludo Vs Ngige; ils ont supers.

biggjoe:

Nobody has been assasinated for elective position in Anambra, get your facts right.

U dey mind them,

Pi nDi Pi has done it again, they can never conduct election, everyone is selected, na wa oo. lol

Soludo?

He has won the election already.

PDP! they'll never stop coming, fraudsters!!!!!!!

ALL ANAMBRARIANS , PRAISE THE LORD ,

THE LORD IS GOOD, ALL THE TIME

MrCrackles:

Topic
I knew he was going to be picked. . . .
Uba is finished
The whole shit developing from Anambra seems to be interesting and i will be watching situation unfold with firm interest

not yet my friend. now the drama will start to unfold.

I GO SHOUT OOOOO
P D P have started again!!!
dis old men no dey tire?
The is genesis of intensive
evil activities in Anambra.
People Deceive People [PDP]
Strategic politicians,well done!

SOLUDO is better than the rest
who cares if he bribes any goddamn firm afterall we have thieves and assassins in government from the grassroots to the top
up SOLUDO,  please dont forget to loot anambra state dry, assassinate your imaginary enemies and prosecute the former governor
do all to the glory of ALMIGHTY PROPHET MUHAMMED

This Saharareporters again.

Soludo`s nomination should not come as a surprise to anybody. However, three factors will work against him : 1. The other candidates that were schemed out may not work for him 2. The Uba brothers will not give him their support and 3. Peter Obi still has power of incumbency . Also, the following are in his favours : 1. He has a rich credential 2. He has the backing of the presidency and PDP stalwarts 3. He has international connections 4. He is eloquent 5. The elites in Anambra are backing him

Who cares? I've never voted PDP in my life and I won't start now or in 2011!

not yet my friend. now the drama will start to unfold.

Exactly, i doubt Chris Uba will just fold his arms and watch!

We waste so much energy on political games in Nigeria. . . to the obvious detriment of human capital,infrastructural & strategic development

Lets just wait and see the impending Political imbroglio unfold in Anambra State. Anambra has proved in recent times to be the centre of political drama in Nigeria.

. . .And the drama continues. .

MUZBO:

Who cares? I've never voted PDP in my life and I won't start now or in 2011!

Damn, PDP does not need your vote to win an election,

Shola2009:

Exactly, i doubt Chris Uba will just fold his arms and watch!

the urborn new south east state will be for Chris Uba and others

What baffles me is how this politicians spend money without blinking an eyelid .Imagine them buying the forms five million naira ,and i heard they were more than 24 aspirants. When some of us like me are looking 4 just one million naira to start up something in life . God go punish them.

banom:

ALL ANAMBRARIANS , PRAISE THE LORD ,

THE LORD IS GOOD, ALL THE TIME

Surely, we will praise the Lord, but we must also not be deceived by this Greek gift.

Yes! Soludo is nothing but a Greek Gift packaged by the polictal the Abuja chess masters to outwit us. Is not because they know that Anambra people are now wiser than they were before Ngige came to the scene? They know that it wont be easy for them to "win" Anambra and they have decided to give us Soludo.  Our responce is this, we wont take.

They will try to rig him in anyway, because Soludo cannot win election when Ngige and Obi are contesting. Soludo might have the support of the so called elites, but how many are they? Soludo has no grass roots in Anambra State!. Mention Obi, the people will node their heads, and mention Ngige, they will give you a smile.

The gladiators just want to use Soludo to "capture" our purse again. They will impeach when the time comes. Even if he succeeds his four years, the criminal machinaries of the Ubasajo's would strategise to produce their kind to take over from Soludo.

We cannot trust the PDP. Even if the PDP will give us Emeka Anyaoku, the contest still remains between Ngige and Obi. At least, we know that those two cannot be manipulated by any god father or devil father.

So, Soludo is hanpicked? Someone should please tell him that we have the right to choose our leaders and that for now, we dont consider him as a leader.

He should tell us what he did to help Anambra when his master OBJ was denying himself sleep to see that Anambra was destroyed. Or he would say that he was not a politician at that time? Then he suddenly became one just because he wants to be governor?

Well, shame awaits both him and his PDP. Anambra is the Waterloo for the PDP. Let them rig him in like OBJ and Iwu did to Uba, but surely power belongs to God and the people.

The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has picked controversial former Central Bank governor, Charles Soludo, as the party's candidate in upcoming Anambra state gubernatorial elections scheduled for February 6, 2010. 

Our sources said the choice of Soludo materialized after much behind-the-scenes intrigues and maneuvers carried out by PDP operatives with ties to Umaru Yar’adua and his wife, Turai Yar'adua.

That is what they do best, and since when does the voice of the wife of the president matters more than that of the party executives

I cant beliv that Turia Yaradull has become so powerful in Naija.