Allegations that Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma prevented President Bola Tinubu from releasing IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu have been refuted by Uzodinma.
Uzodinma accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of exploiting the tale as a form of blackmail ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in the state.
After realizing they could lose the 2019 governorship race, the PDP resorted to blackmail, Governor Uzodinma said in a statement released by his Special Adviser on Public Communications, Collins Ughalaa.
He insisted that it is not true that he tried to stop Tinubu from helping to secure Kanu’s release.
Some excerpts from the statement read as follows: “We know that the unhappy opposition party may do anything, even aiding or financing terror in the state, but we hoped the party still had some shame. However, the party’s current willingness to do everything to blackmail Governor Hope Uzodinma indicates that it has no moral compass and is capable of doing any atrocity.
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and its agents spread a hoax article claiming that Governor Hope Uzodinma was responsible for preventing the release of political prisoner Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
Everything in the story is a lie. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu did not make the comment they erroneously attributed to him, and neither the governor nor he reached out to the president to ask that Kanu not be released. There is absolutely no justification for taking such action.
During a Monday meeting with Igbo businesses in Abuja, it was reported that Tinubu accused Uzodinma of preventing him from assisting Kanu’s release.
The presidency, however, has repeatedly stated that Tinubu has never made such a statement.
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