365news gathered that Chukwuma Soludo, the governor of Anambra State, has denied accepting payment in exchange for publicly disparaging Peter Obi, the nominee of the Labour Party (LP).
He said if he had taken the bribe, he would have become a trillionaire.
In a lengthy essay he authored the previous week, Soludo asserted that Obi would never become president of Nigeria.
He further asserted that Obi’s Anambra investment is currently worth almost nothing.
In response, Obi said Soludo should perform better in the state because he was a professor as opposed to his being a dealer.
However, Soludo and Obi met at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church on Thursday during the Thanksgiving mass conducted for Most Rev. Paulinus C. Ezeokafor.
The two men were seen embracing each other while exchanging pleasantries.
Soludo insisted there was no rift between him and Obi, only political differences.
“There is no rift between Obi and me at a personal level. Nobody snatched each other’s wife. What appears to be the rift between us is fundamental political differences. Nothing else.
“So for those forging blackmail and all that, including the one they said I collected bribe to say what I said, I asked them to bring it so I will use it to construct roads. If Soludo is into bribery, I would have been a multi-trillionaire now,” Soludo explained.