The Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, says he has no information about any specific allegations or basis for the arrest of a Twitter user, Mr Nnamdi Chude.
Chude had, through his Twitter handle, raised the alarm that thugs suspected to be working for the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance in the state, invaded some polling units in the state and allegedly snatched ballot boxes.
The tweep, who expressed disappointment, said the thugs disrupted the voting process in order to prevent their party from losing the state Assembly election to a rival party.
In the tweet, Chude said, “I can’t remember the last time I heard of ballot box snatching in Anambra. This is the height of it; @CCSoludo has taken us back to Mbadinuju’s era.”
The Twitter user was subsequently picked up by security operatives from Onitsha and transported to Awka’s State Criminal Investigative Department, where he is allegedly being detained on cybercrime charges.
But reacting to the development in a statement on Sunday, Soludo, through his Press Secretary, Christian Aburime, said Chude was arrested on Saturday in Anambra by the Cybercrime Unit of Interpol and taken to Abuja on Sunday.
The two-paragraph statement came with the caption, “Re: Arrest of one Mr Chude by the police.”
It read, “The Commissioner of Police, Anambra State Police Command has confirmed to the Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, that one Mr Nnamdi Chude was arrested yesterday (18/03/23) in Anambra by the Cybercrime Unit of Interpol and taken to Abuja today (19/03/23).
“The Anambra State Government has no information about any specific allegations or basis of his arrest.”
