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Following the winning of the presidential ticket of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, the Governor of Ebonyi State and Chairman, South-East Governors’ Forum, David Umahi, on Sunday, boasted that if he clinches the presidential ticket of the All Progressive Congress, he will defeat the candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, before 12noon of election day.
The governor, who is a
presidential aspirant of the ruling party, spoke when the national leadership
of the Nigeria Union of Journalists and National Association of Women
Journalists, paid him a courtesy visit at the new Presidential lodge,
Government House, Abakaliki, on Sunday.
Umahi said he was not
comfortable with the show of financial imprudence exhibited by the presidential
aspirants of the PDP during their Party’s primary election in Abuja.
He said, “Assuming I was
the President, I would have impounded those vehicles in Abuja. I weep for this
country.”
The APC Presidential
aspirant emphasised that he left PDP because the South-East was marginalised
under it, adding that the achievements he had so far recorded under the APC
administration remains unbeatable and indelible.
He called on Nigerians to
cast their votes for leaders with enviable pedigree and antecedents, rather
than those without the vision to transform the country.
On Biafra, Umahi insisted
that Ebonyi State was not part and parcel of Biafra as Ebonyi had over the
years suffered disenfranchisement and marginalisation in the hands of other South-Eastern
States.
He applauded the
President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rted), for his enormous support to
the growth and development of the state.
Umahi, who charged media
practitioners to partner his administration in every sector, advised them to
guide against any behaviour that is capable of putting the media community in a
bad light.
Earlier, the National
President of NUJ, Chris Ishiguzo assured the Governor of the cooperation of the
media even as he commended Umahi for advancing the course of development in the
state.
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