Dr. Nonye Soludo, wife of Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo, has lashed out at the All Progressives Congress (APC) deputy governorship candidate i
Dr. Nonye Soludo, wife of Anambra State Governor Charles Soludo, has lashed out at the All Progressives Congress (APC) deputy governorship candidate in the state, Uche Ekwunife, over an allegation of body odour against her husband.
Ekwunife had, in a recent video, claimed that Soludo’s mouth smells and that the governor has body odour.
Ekwunife, a former senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, said this in reaction to Soludo’s claim that she obtained her doctorate degree from an unaccredited and unrecognised university in the United States.
She dismissed Soludo’s allegations and challenged the governor to verify her academic records across several Nigerian universities.
Ekwunife said: “Go to court if you claim my PhD certificate is fake. Go to Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, to verify my master’s degree and to the University of Calabar for my first degree. I did both before obtaining my PhD. The illiterate professor who said he is the governor of Anambra state should please leave me alone, we are practising social democracy in Nigeria and all political party know their candidate. Soludo has contested for governor of Anambra state twice before Willie Obiano imposed him on Ndi Anambra.
“All the bushes in Anambra state are full of people’s corpse, Anambra was a state that every Thursday people come to but now people are running way from Anambra, you have failed woefully as a governor.
“Have they not told you that your mouth smells? You’re the dirtiest governor in the whole of Africa. You smell, your armpits smell. Tell your wife to get you deodorant, when you bathe, you apply it to your armpits so you can be like your fellow men.
“When you open your mouth to speak, the Odour that comes out is so Stinking and embarrassing for a governor.”
In her reaction, the governor’s wife asked Ekwunife to leave her out of politics and concentrate on her struggles.
The first lady in a statement issued on Wednesday her media adviser, Daniel Ezeigwe, further described as false the former senator’s claim that she once served under the late Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju, saying she was never part of that widely criticised administration.
She, however, urged Ekwunife to rather focus on how to defend her controversial PhD degree, saying, “At no time was Soludo nor his wife involved in the government of the time. Though it is sad that Senator Ekwunife would rather resort to inciting hate and name-calling against a woman who is widely loved by the people, the truth is that, unlike Ekwunife herself, the governor’s wife can never be drawn to political or personal debasement. We challenge Senator Ekwunife to stick to the line of the argument and bring verifiable proof that her Degree and PhD certificates are real.”
