Umahi along with members of his cabinet on Tuesday defected from the PDP to the APC, citing injustice to the South East by his former political party.
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Bello said this in an interview on Channels Television programme, Politics Today, on the heels of the defection of the Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, to the APC from the PDP.
There are a number of perfect justifications that the Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. Dave Umahi, could have advanced for his decampment from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress in pursuit of the presidency of Nigeria. Grounding his reason on the purported “injustice” meted out to the South East by the PDP betrays a complete absence of conscience. This ludicrous claim is fed by nothing but blind ambition.
Wike said this on a Channels Television programme, Politics Today, on Wednesday.
Umahi made the revelation on Thursday morning in Abakaliki during a reception for the Progressives Governors Forum signaling his official admission into the fold.
Nwebonyi noted that his emergence as party chairman was through election for a four-year term and not by appointment by the national body of the party.
Yekini Nabena, the party’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
The President, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, described Umahi’s defection further “as a bold move driven purely by principle rather than opportunistic motives”.
The ex-spokesman said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu on Wednesday.
In a statement by his Media Adviser, Uchenna Awom, in Abuja, Abaribe said the party had before now adverted her mind to the fact that Umahi was already in his new party, All Progressive Congress, in spirit before his formal announcement on Tuesday.
Okechukwu, in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday, said that the governor had made a bold move by joining the ruling APC.
The caucus at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, described the Governor’s action as insensitive, unacceptable and selfish, maintaining that the reasons given by Umahi for his action were both untenable and deceitful.
Chima stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abakaliki.
The NWC in a statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Tuesday also dissolved the South-East Zonal Caretaker Committee.
The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, said this in a statement on Tuesday.
Mbam, also Chairman, Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, said this while speaking with newsmen on Monday in Abakaliki.
The FRSC Sector Commander in Ebonyi, Stella Uchegbu, made the disclosure on Sunday in Abakaliki while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria as part of activities to mark the 2020 African Road Safety and World Day of Remembrance for Road Crash Victims.
For the speedy take-off, the Ebonyi State Government has allocated a parcel of land to the Nigeria Export Processing Zone Authority for the project.
Orji made the disclosure in Abakaliki on Sunday while reacting to the statement by the All Progressives Congress that the governor had concluded plans to defect to the party.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the neighbourhoods watch members, who were not usually seen with any form of weaponry, were suddenly seen brandishing cutlasses during the recent #EndSARS crisis in the state.