Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo of Anambra State and his wife, Dr. Nonye Soludo, have rejected as “another fabrication” the apology reportedly issued on behalf of Senator Uche Ekwunife over her recent defamatory remarks.
Ekwunife, the deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the upcoming Anambra election, had accused the First Lady of infidelity. But in a statement on Wednesday, Soludo’s Senior Special Assistant on New Media, Mazi Ejimofor Opara, dismissed the purported apology—allegedly from an “Ekwunife Campaign Organization”—as fake, unsigned, and lacking credibility.
Opara argued that no such campaign body exists since Ekwunife is on a joint ticket with the APC governorship candidate, stressing that any genuine retraction must come directly from the senator herself. He further insisted the apology was inadequate because it failed to reference the video and audio recordings where the damaging allegations were made.
The governor’s office recalled that Dr. Nonye Soludo had earlier dared Ekwunife to swear before the Blessed Sacrament and subject her children to DNA tests to disprove the claims. “Any contrite apology must be personal and unambiguous. Defamation cannot be dismissed by proxy or unsigned statements,” Opara said.
Describing the apology as nothing more than “social media gossip,” the Soludo administration maintained it would treat it as non-existent until Ekwunife herself issues a clear and direct retraction
