Ebonyi state Governor Dave Umahi [Oriental Times]
Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has barred his
supporters from castigating the state’s National
Assembly members and others who did not defect
with him from the PDP to the APC.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that
the three senators and six House of
Representatives members from the state among
other public officers, did not defect with the
governor to the APC.
Umahi gave the instruction on Thursday in Abakaliki
during his formal declaration for the APC in the
presence of the party’s National Caretaker
Committee Chairman, governors of Kebbi, Niger and
Jigawa among other top stalwarts.
The governor said that Ebonyi is presently 99.9 per
cent APC as he left the remainder for the national
assembly members among other non-defectors.
“Do not castigate them because they are looking for
something and will come back when they get it.
“They are my children and I love them very much as
the father of the state, ” he said.
He thanked his appointees and teeming supporters
for believing in him adding that the path he chose
was best for the state and the South East zone.
“We have the deputy governor, speaker of the House
of Assembly, 110 state executive council members,
1,200 executive assistants, senior technical
assistants and technical assistants and 374 LGA
liaison officers together in this agreement.
“We also have 400 members of boards and
commissions, 560 LGA management committee
members, 130 LGA supervisors, the entire chairmen
of the 13 LGAs, party chairmen in the councils,
legislators among others in this movement,” he
said.
Umahi urged political stakeholders in the South East
zone to move en masse to the APC because it was
time for the zone to move to the centre.
Alhaji Mai Buni , the APC National Caretaker
Chairman and Yobe governor, congratulated Umahi
and his supporters for joining the party and urged
him to carry everyone along.
“ Your entrance into the party is timely, coming at a
time we are rebuilding the party with reconciliation
and about to begin membership registration.
“The national caretaker committee of the party has
dissolved its structures in Ebonyi and conferred on
you, the leader of the party in the state, ” he said.
Dr Kelechi Igwe , Ebonyi Deputy Governor, said that
the governor informed him of his decision to join
APC and he did not waste time in accepting to
move with him.
“ I am promising the governor that I will go where he
goes, stay where he stays and he should dictate to
me having called me to duty, ” he said.
Chief Nwachukwu Eze , Chairman of the disbanded
party’s state executive committee and an Umahi
critic, pledged to work with the governor and
consequently cease his constant criticisms on
radio.
NAN reports top party stalwarts gave their goodwill
messages as the national caretaker committee
chairman inaugurated the newly constituted state’s
caretaker committee.
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