The abductors of Pa Simeon Soludo have scaled down their ransom from N500 million to N300 million with a warning that “the worst” may befall him if their demand is not met immediately.
Pa Soludo, 78, father of the immediate past governor of the Central Bank (CBN) Professor Chukwuma Soludo was abducted from his residence at Isu-Anioma, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State on Tuesday as he was about taking his dinner.
Pastor Ugochukwu Soludo, a son of the kidnap victim said the latest demand was made yesterday while the abductors threatened to visit the worst on the old man if their demand was not met immediately.
Pastor Soludo faulted a report credited to the police that the family had not made a formal report on the kidnap. According to him, their eldest brother, Emmanuel, made a formal report the same day their father was kidnapped at the Ekwulobia Police Station in Aguata Local Government Area.
“The following morning, which was Wednesday, the police visited our home where Emmanuel and everybody that needed to be interviewed were interviewed and it was done in writing by the police team.
The issue that a formal report has not been made to the police is not true,” he said. Ugochukwu said though the family was worried about the safety and health of their father and want his immediate rescue, it was ridiculous that the family was made to engage in negotiations for the life of a 78 year-old man who did not commit any crime.
Their father, he said, is required to was and refix his artificial eye every three days. He expressed fear that his condition might have worsened in the last five days of his abduction. He also regretted that politicians were trivializing their father’s kidnap, adding that there was no way the family could have kidnapped him as some politicians insinuated.
Meanwhile, the South East Zonal Working Committee (ZWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed concern over the verbal war between the gubernatorial candidate of the party in Anambra State for next year’s election, Prof Chukwuma Soludo and a member of the party’s Board of Trustees, Chief Chris Uba, saying the development is not in the interest of the party.
The ZWC has, therefore, directed all the combatants to lay down their arms and channel their grievances to the National Working Committee (NWC) instead of ridiculing the party in the media.
Soludo, former Central Bank governor and Uba, have lately been locked in a war of words following the kidnap of Pa Simeon Soludo which the former governor of CBN accused those opposed to his candidature as being the mastermind.
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