{"id":122333,"date":"2025-09-18T07:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=122333"},"modified":"2025-09-18T07:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:59:29","slug":"anambra-govt-rejects-ekwunifes-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/anambra-govt-rejects-ekwunifes-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Anambra Govt Rejects Ekwunife\u2019s Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Oscar Okhifo<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Anambra State Government has rejected an apology allegedly issued on behalf of Senator Uche Ekwunife over claims that she defamed Governor Chukwuma Soludo and his wife, Dr. Nonye Soludo.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ekwunife, who is the deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming Anambra election, was accused of making damaging remarks suggesting infidelity on the part of the First Lady.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A statement signed by the media aide to Senator Ekwunife, Tony Ezike on behalf of the\u00a0 \u201cEkwunife Campaign Organization,\u201d disowned and condemned a controversial article linking Mrs. Soludo to former political godfather, Chief Chris Uba. The statement also cautioned supporters against escalating the matter through further publications.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the Anambra government, through the Senior Special Assistant on New Media to the Governor, Ejimofor Opara, dismissed the apology as unauthentic, stressing that there was no known body called \u201cEkwunife Campaign Organization.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opara insisted that any retraction must come directly from Senator Ekwunife herself and must reference the video and audio recordings where the defamatory allegations were made. He added that only a personal, unambiguous apology delivered through the same channels would be acceptable.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The development follows an earlier 72-hour ultimatum issued by Dr. Nonye Soludo, who challenged Ekwunife to retract her remarks, swear an oath before the Blessed Sacrament affirming her marital fidelity, and submit her children, along with the Soludos\u2019, to DNA tests to end the controversy.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Ekwunife\u2019s camp denies authorship of the defamatory publication, the Soludo family maintains that the senator must take responsibility. Legal action has not been ruled out if a satisfactory retraction is not issued.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The public now awaits what the senator will say next.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oscar Okhifo The Anambra State Government has rejected an apology allegedly issued on behalf of Senator Uche Ekwunife over claims that she defamed Governor Chukwuma Soludo and his wife,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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