PDP govs fault alleged Umahi’s defection to APC

Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi, on Tuesday, said he remained an “unshakable member of the Peoples Democratic Party.”

He denied media reports linking him to the ruling All Progressives Congress.
The PDP Governors Forum also on Tuesday said it was incorrect that Umahi belongs to both the PDP and the APC.

Umahi, a PDP governor, was reported to have, while hosting the people of Ishielu and Onicha Local Government Areas, said he belonged to both the APC and the PDP.

He was said to have made the comment while warning members of the PDP, that were planning to defect to the APC.

He was quoted to have said, “Stay in one place. Don’t run from here to here and from there to here. E no make sense. If you say you dey there (APC), know I am already there. If you go to APC, I am an APC member. If you go to the PDP, I am there.

“I am the only person that does anti-party and nothing will happen.

“Any other person that does anti-party is gone. So, I am representing you in the APC while you all stay in the PDP. If you like, go and write it on social media.”

But Umahi, while debunking the reports, said he was misquoted as there was no way he could have made such a statement.

The governor spoke through the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Uchenna Orji, who released a statement on the issue.

Orji said the governor was misrepresented by some mischief makers who he claimed were hiding under partisan politics to malign him for selfish reasons.

The statement read, “In their desperate attempt to cause disaffection against the state government, they mischievously misrepresented the governor as saying ‘I am the only governor that belongs to the PDP and the APC.