The screening panel of the All Progressive
Grand Alliance (APGA) Friday disqualified six
of the party's aspirants, including one of the
front-runners, Prof. Charles Chukwuma
Soludo.
In a statement signed by the Chairman of the
Gubernatorial Screening panel, Alhaji Tayo
Sowunmi, Secretary, Mr. Ifrani Mbaeri and a
member, Chief Onwuka Ukwa, said at the
conclusion of the panel's sitting Friday, six of
aspirant's failed to scale through the test,
while seven scaled through.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/soludo-five-others-fail-apga-screening/156463/

hooha lol...so what happens now?free passage for oseloka?

I thought he is the President's anointed? ;DI thought he is the President's anointed?

This is ridiculous. If APGA fails to field Soludo they should kiss goodbye to igbo politics. wtf. Now PDP are returning to govt house, they have succeeded in their war against soludo

asha 80: hooha lol...so what happens now?free passage for oseloka?

ose what? He can't even win a Senate seat in the state talk more of governorship

Game changer.

The news is still sketchy...On what ground was he disqualified? Please this will help me to make some input on the characters and integrity of the screening panel members.

Ngige all the way.

Soludo,Oya go grab PDP form sharp sharp.. No time.
GEJ got ur back after all, he(GEJ) said it himself

So what next for Soludo?

Labour Party, OPC, MEND MACHOP or which Political party

These wakabout Politicians sef

Soludo would not just decamp to APGA without some sort of understanding with Obi. If everything goes well, he should be the candidate of APGA.

Why was he disqualified??

I hope its not because of the fact that he's a THIEF....

N750m scam: EFCC detains Soludo

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday interrogated and detained the immediate past Governor of Central Bank, Professor Chukwuma Soludo in Abuja.

Commission’s media unit confirmed his presence at the commission.

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for 2010 governorship election in Anambra State was reportedly invited by the commission over the alleged bribery case involving the printing of N5, N10, and N20 during his tenure at the bank.

A very top source within the commission told the Nigerian Tribune that Soludo honoured the commission’s invitation and was quizzed for several hours.

He was said to have arrived the commission’s office at about 2 pm and when the Nigerian Tribune called the media unit of the commission a few minutes to 7.00 p.m., he was reportedly still under interrogation.

When the top source was asked if he would be released on administrative bail yesterday night, our correspondent was told that “you can be rest assured that by the time your story is out tomorrow, he would still be here. So if you wrote that he was released on administrative bail last night, then you would be feeding the reading public with incorrect information.”

A media unit source further stated that “he was invited and he appeared today. He is still with us and we are together. He is undergoing interrogation. If you check the time now (6.41 p.m.), you can guess how long he has been with us because he came in the afternoon during the working hours.”

“We asked him to come and explain his roles in the activities surrounding the bribery allegations on the printing of those notes. The case for which he was invited is about the Australian currency mint company, Securency, that handled polymer banknotes and what transpired in the course of printing those notes.”

It was gathered that a couple of former and serving CBN officials were also being interrogated over the alleged bribery deal.

When contacted, EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren was said to be in a crucial meeting.

A group, HEDA Resource Centre had petitioned the commission, demanding an investigation into the alleged currency scandal between 2006 and 2008.

The group’s chairman, Akaninyeme Enzina was invited by the commission on August 22, 2012 to defend the petition which was dated May 23, 2012.

HEDA’s petition had demanded the investigation and prosecution of serving and retired government officials indicted in the alleged scandal which stemmed from the printing of polymer Naira notes during the tenure of Professor Soludo at the Central Bank of Nigeria between 2006 and 2008.

The petition charged both the EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to undertake this investigation and prosecution as empowered by laws establishing both institutions.

The petition was predicated on the printing of the notes which were allegedly printed in Australia in a fraudulent deal, following which The Age, a local newspaper, reported that former workers at Securency, The Reserve Bank of Australia’s currency firm, had told the police the firm produced millions of partly made Nigerian bank notes without authorisation from the Nigerian authorities.

In effect, the former staff said that was counterfeiting. The newspaper reported that the Australian Federal Police had subsequently investigated Securency over alleged bribery of foreign officials, including Nigerian and Vietnamese officials, to win contracts in these countries.

HEDA’s petition, according to Mr. Suraju, drew attention to the fact that The Age reported that Securency paid some N750 million in bribes to some officials of the CBN between 2006 and 2008 in order to secure the contract to make polymer notes for Nigeria, channeling the bribes through Benoy Berry and Michael Harvey, two British businessmen.

HEDA chairman further claimed that ,“The petition reminded the anti corruption institutions of a publication of Sydney Herald that on September 29, 2009, a day before the launching of the N5, N10 and N20 polymer notes, Benoy Berry, one of the British businessmen sent a letter to Myles Curtis (then Managing Director of Securency International Pty Limited, an Australian company) alleging a breach of contract and accusing the bank note company of bribing top officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria to secure contract for Securency. He also accused Securency of breaching polymer-based mint planned to be established in Nigeria as part of principled objectives of transferring technology to developing nations.”

http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/2843-n750m-scam-efcc-detains-soludo

yunglykmine: Soludo,Oya go grab PDP form sharp sharp.. No time.
GEJ got ur back after all, he(GEJ) said it himself

Soludo should join ANY party (apart from APC - Amala People's Congress). He is the people's choice

Where is Onlytruth? I dey laugh poo.

Prof Corruption: Soludo would not just decamp to APGA without some sort of understanding with Obi. If everything goes well, he should be the candidate of APGA.

You are advocating him sneaking through the backdoor despite being openly disqualified. And you want him to do that in conjunction with the governor.
I hope Obi develops balls to deal with the disgruntled elements that will arise out of that ill-fated action.

PDP. SMH. But it may be a blessing for the state. They dont have a choice but to vote Ngige who will do better. I dont see a reason why they should vote a man who has been accused of fraud though. I wish Anambra people the best and hope they vote wisely. I am tired of seeing Nigeria so backward. We must move forward to the 21st century.

Eeya, what a shame.



I give credit to the leadership of APGA. It is not wise to allow Soludo who just picked up the party's membership card less than two months ago, become the party's flagbearer when there are other qualified party members who have worked with Obi, persevered and helped to build the party to what it is are also jostling for the ticket.

Secondly, Obi would prefer his loyalist, a stooge. Its all about the politics of self-preservation and relevance after office. A popular and independent-minded Soludo cannot guarantee him those. Soludo can pick up PDM's ticket since it is a new party.

You are simply naive! Do you think in your wildest dream that Obi
will stand and watch Soludo pick the APGA ticket? He knew all
along that Soludo is even a bigger threat than Ngige. This is what
Obi did -
1 - Over blew the deportation scandal to "kill" Ngige's party in
anambra. 70% succeeded

2 - Convince Soludo to join APGA so as to make it easy defeating
him during party primaries or denying him ticket. 100% succeeded

3 - Play the politics of rotation to confuse the masses, by going
around preaching that anambra north deserves it. 80% successful.
I made two conclusions the moment I read about Soludo leaving
PDP.

It is either he was too naive and foolish or his handlers are
stupìd. In Nigeria, most governors would like their SSG succeeding
them, cos that is the only time they are assured their secrets won't
go public.

Soludo is about to die politically, cos he performed the plebeian
harakiri.

Here is what I wrote last week.

https://www.nairaland.com/1394670/pdp-moves-against-soludo-ahead#17395133

#AdieuSoludo