The appointees, who were Community Development Coordinators, under the umbrella of G64, levelled the accusation on Thursday at a news briefing in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital.
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The Commissioner of Police in the state, Philip Maku, made the assertion in a statement issued to newsmen in Abakiliki on Sunday.
Umahi gave the advice on Tuesday, when the EXCO members, led by Deputy Gov. Kelechi Igwe, paid him a Christmas homage in his country home at Uburu, Ohaozara Local Government Area.
CSP Ebere Amaraizu, National Coordinator, Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Enugu.
Umahi made the remark in a Christmas message on Friday in Abakaliki.
Umahi gave the order on Friday in Abakaliki during a press conference against the background of reported spike in COVID-19 cases across the country.
The appointees, comprising all the 13 Council Chairman, 64 Development Centre Coordinators, 342 Liaison officers, 171 Ward Councillors and 512 Management Committee members, among others, stormed the new Governor’s Lodge at the Ochudo Centenary City, Abakaliki on Monday, bearing the APC symbolic brooms and banners affirming their loyalty to the Governor.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the budget tagged, ‘Budget of Stabilisation and Consolidation in a Recession’ is lower than the 2020 revised budget of N132 billion.
The party’s position was contained in a statement on Wednesday, titled: “PDP Ebonyi State chapter Press release on sustained sponsored State acts of political intolerance,” by its State Publicity Secretary, Silas Joseph Onu.
Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria, he said youths should ask politicians looking for thugs to use their children to discharge any assignment they wanted thugs to discharge.
The sack is contained in a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Dr Kenneth Ugbala, released on Wednesday in Abakaliki.
The CAN leadership led by its Chairman, Rev. Father Abraham Nwali, in a mediatory/courtesy visit to the Governor on Tuesday, sued for peace, maintaining that everyone has the right to move or remain in any political party of his choice.
Obi spoke while responding to a question during his appearance on Arise Television on Tuesday.
Matawalle, who made the lamentation in a statement on Friday by his media aide, Zailani Bappa, commended Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State “for his bold decision” to leave the party.
The party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Sunday described the purported reports as misleading.
The meeting, on Sunday, at the instance of Umahi, was a private dinner, which was ongoing as at press time.
Political science scholars have been scrambling to explain this weird and atypical Nigerian political prostitution culture where a politician wakes up in the morning as belonging to a political party, by midday, is divorced from that party and by nightfall, is in bed with yet another.
Umahi gave the directive for the dissolution in a statement by Kenneth Ugbala, the Secretary to the State Government and Coordinating Commissioner.
Umahi gave the order on Friday in a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Kenneth Ugbala.
Idimogu (APC, Oshodi-Isolo Constituency II) and Deputy Apex Leader, Ndigbo in Lagos APC, told the News Agency of Nigeria that Umahi’s defection from the Peoples Democratic Party further cemented his belief that the political future of people of the South East lies in the APC.