The police in Anambra have arrested Nnamdi Chude, a fervent supporter of the Labour Party, for allegedly likening the current administration to the terror-tainted tenure of former governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju.
According reporting by People’s Gazette, Chude is currently being held at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Awka over allegation of cybercrime.
Chude had alleged on his Twitter page that he witnessed an incident where thugs allegedly procured by the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Anambra snatched ballot boxes to disrupt the voting process out of desperation that APGA candidates might lose to Labour Party opponents in the state parliamentary elections, similar to what happened in the presidential polls.
Chude had tweeted: “#Breaking: APGA thugs are on rampage in Trans-Nkisi, 3’3 & Awada snatching ballot box. LP is winning comfortably across Anambra,” Mr Chude tweeted at 4:12 p.m. Saturday afternoon.
Chude, then, likened Soludo’s inability to stop election violence in the state to that of his distant predecessor, Mbadinuju, whose tenure witnessed a surge in brazen crimes and blatant disregard for the rule of law.
“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,” Chude added.
Around 5:30 p.m., security operatives swiftly picked up Chude from Onitsha and transported him to Awka’s SCID where he is being detained on cybercrime charges, according to People’s Gazette, quoting a source with knowledge of the matter who
Section 24 of the Cybercrime Act 2015, criminalises the use of a computer or network for any person to intentionally send a message “he knows to be false, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, ill will or needless anxiety to another.”
