From Magnus Eze, Enugu
Chairman of South East Governors’ Forum
and Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief David Umahi, has said that he is
under intense pressure to support President Muhammadu Buhari, candidate
of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 16 polls.
Chairman,
Strategy Committee of Divine Mandate; Umahi’s campaign organisation,
Chief Emmanuel Igwe who made the disclosure, yesterday, said all the
governor asked of the president is to allow free, fair and credible
election in the state.
He said that Umahi, as a mark of respect
for the president, had promised to mobilise 2000 PDP members to come out
and receive the president during his campaign stopover in Abakaliki,
the state capital, this week. His words: “The governor wishes Buhari and
his entourage a happy stay as APC Presidential Campaign Council visits
Ebonyi on the 30th of January, 2019. Governor Umahi wishes to put it on
record that the President, Muhammad Buhari is his personal friend and a
friend of the state. He has much respect for the office of the
president. The Governor has been under pressure to support the
re-election of my president by APC bigwigs especially the party
chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Chibuike Amaechi just to mention but
a few who come under various guises that the APC has no interest in
Ebonyi guber race.
“The Governor has no need for external forces
to win convincingly in Ebonyi since over 95 per cent of the electorate
is supporting his re-election. The Governor has been too magnanimous to
the APC by donating the sum of five million naira to her guber
candidate, Senator Sonni Ogbuoji to enable him print campaign posters
and promised to mobilize two thousand people that will welcome Mr
President on the proposed campaign rally,” Igwe stated.
Warning
that Ebonyi people will resist any form of manipulation or rigging and
intimidation with the last drop of their blood; Umahi urged the APC
presidential campaign council to make out time and inspect both
completed and ongoing projects in the state during their campaign tour.
Source:- Sunnewsonline
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