Soludo’s dad’s kidnappers want N200m – The Nation
November 3, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
Kidnappers of Pa Simeon Nwankwo Soludo have again lowered their ransom – from N500m to N300 million and now N200 million – the police said yesterday.
Besides, Anambra State Police Commissioner Philemon Leha accused the press of heightening the tension on the kidnap last Tuesday of the 78-year old father of the ex-Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, who wants to be governor.
Leha said he had no cause to suspect that the self-styled godfather of Anambra politics, Chief Chris Uba, had a hand in the kidnap, adding that he just invited him based on the crisis in his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to avoid a breakdown of law and order.
Uba yesterday led a retinue of the party’s governorship aspirants, numbering about 23, to the Police Headquarters at Amawbia.
Uba, who arrived at the police command at about 2.35pm, had a long meeting with Leha. He spent over three hours with the police chief.
Uba told reporters after the meeting that the PDP had no governorship candidate. His group and members of the party, he said, were waiting for the final decision of the National Working Committee (NWC) on who the PDP candidate is.
