PDP Governors Tackle Umahi, Calls Him Immoral, Saboteur

The Peoples Democratic Party’s Governors Forum, has taken a strong exception  to the statement credited to Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State with regards to the Party’s (PDP) Presidential Zoning in 2023.

Umahi was a two term PDP Governor who inexplicably dumped the party midway for the All Progressives Congress, APC, flaunting one of his reasons as his love for President Muhammadu Buhari. He also said he was moving because the PDP was delaying in zoning the 2023 Presidential slot to the South-east. Earlier, before he  left the Party, he had asked it to zone it to the South-east,  or he would quit.

He has since defected to the APC, where it does seem, everyday, that if the reason he joined was to have a finger on the big pie, it is not working.

Having left the PDP, not a few people were surprised when he commented on the delay in the PDP over zoning of the Presidency to the South-east. The APC has not done that yet.

Stung by Umahi”s poke-nosing, the PDP Governors Forum in a strongly-worded statement signed by its Director General, Hon. CID Maduabum, asked Umahi to shut up.

The Forum reminded him of the immorality of “illegally sitting on a PDP mandate, and calling himself an APC Governor.”

It also accused him of, sabotaging, as a PDP Governor, the 2019 Presidential election against  the PDP, so as to give Buhari 25 per cent, but was checkmated by outraged Ebonyi people.

The statement also chided him for claiming to be close to President Buhari “irrespective of the maladministration and daily incidents of destruction of lives and properties currently going on in Ebonyi State and the entire country under the watch of the APC.”

Following is the full text of the statement titled:

UMAHI SHOULD FACE APC MISRULE AND HIS FRUSTRATIONS

“The PDP GOVERNORS’ FORUM is outraged at the attempt by the Governor of Ebonyi State, H.E. David Umahi, who illegally and immoraly sits on a PDP mandate and calls himself an APC Governor to turn truth on its head.

“2 . Governor Umahi left PDP for APC, according to him, because of the love he has for President Buhari, among other flimsy reasons, irrespective of the maladministration  and daily incidents of destruction of lives and properties currently going on in Ebonyi State and the entire country under the watch of APC

“3. Governor Umahi sabotaged the PDP in 2019 elections in his quest to deliver 25% to his APC benefactors. It took the determined resistance of Ebonyi people to checkmate him. It was good riddance that he subsequently left PDP for APC instead of continuing his role as an APC mole.

“4. On the issue of Zoning, we advise Governor Umahi to face his frustrations in APC and not drag PDP and her Governors into it. PDP is an independent political Party  with workable structures and method of doing things. It’s not an appendage of the APC or indeed any other association or group.

“5.The PDP will take its decision on the issue of zoning political offices at the appropriate time. Even the APC has not taken any decision yet on zoning. Different groups and interests are advancing arguments to defend their positions as is required in a democracy. At the end of  the day, decisions will be taken by each political party.

“6. The PDP is single minded in its resolve to boot out the APC in 2023 and would craft strategies to achieve same in the national interest as APC currently represents an existential threat to Nigerias democracy and survival. Indeed all Nigerians have a duty and responsibility to end this long nightmare of APC misrule.”