Sunday, January 10, 2010

Who Wants Soludo Dead?

It is highly inconceivable that any sane person(s) should constitute themselves into a mob as to want to attack the person of Professor Chukwuma Soludo, candidate of the PDP in the February 15 governorship poll in Anambra state, as reported by Daily Independent Newspapers. (Pic shows Professor Soludo)

According to the report, Soludo, erstwhile Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), narrowly escaped being lynched on Saturday night (January 3) in Agulu where he allegedly castigated Governor Peter Obi before his [Obi’s] own people. Part of the report claim that some non-indigenes of the state, including Chairman of the PDP’s Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, had been meddling in the electoral campaigns in favor of Soludo.

Soludo who arrived at St. Peter’s field, Agulu, at about 7pm was said to have told his audience that the incumbent Governor Peter Obi did not do enough to warrant giving him a second term in office, asking them to vote for him so that “light will shine on them”, and they would see the difference.

But the crowd reportedly went berserk at Soludo, hauling stones and other missiles at the erudite Professor. The youths even blocked the exit to the field, and if not for the timely intervention of police orderlies, would have possibly pelted the unsuspecting guber candidate with the stones and missiles.

But whatever it is worth, it runs contrary to all known political norms to have attempted to harm a politician who campaigns for a political office alongside others over his utterances. The violent attitude of the youths as, of course, supported by their elders, is bare-faced shameful and highly uncivilized.

The truth is that if Professor Soludo had defamed anybody in the course of his political campaigns, would it not have been more reasonable to report him to authorities charges with the responsibility of handling such issues rather then taking laws into one‘s hands? What, then, is the sense in deploying self-help and harming a man of Soludo’s pedigree simply because he has come to participate in fixing the intractable problems of his state of origin?

What a big shame? KlinReports hereby calls for an immediate stop to this hooliganism, not only against Professor Soludo, but against all other party candidates.

In case, the hoodlums (youths) and their sponsors don’t know, Soludo, as a Nigerian citizen, has an inalienable right to freedom of speech and association, among others, as enshrined in the Chapter 4 of Nigerian Constitution.

ENOUGH OF THIS MADNESS, PLEASE!

Written by: UBA AHAM

Publisher (KlinReports.blogspot.com)


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