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*2019: I can’t join APC made of failed leaders
*2020: I am offering myself to APC as a matyr
*2021: Still loading
By Emman Ovuakporie
Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi may go into Nigeria’s political archives as the most unpredictable, naive and deceptive politician from the South East geo-political zone of Nigeria.
TheNewsGuru.com, TNG in this news analysis will take a look at some of his twisted utterances and how the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP harboured a disloyal member for almost two decades.
On Tuesday, the Senator Sam Egwu led Ebonyi legislative caucus at the National Assembly gave him the heave ho, signalling he had been orphaned.
The caucus didn’t mince words, they simply told the two tongued governor “we are not going on a journey of no return with you , you are on your own.
Just last year July, Umahi had told whoever cared to listen that he can’t join the ruling party as it was made of failed leaders.
By November of 2020, the governor has sang a different tone connoting all he said in 2018 and 2019 was absolute nonesense.
Hear him:
2019: I Can’t Join APC With Failed Leaders – Gov. Umahi
July 17, 2018 Blueprint
The Governor of Ebonyi State Engr. David Umahi has dispelled rumours making the rounds that he has plans to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in Ebonyi State.
Governor Umahi, made the announcement Tuesday at the Government House, Abakaliki while briefing journalists.
His declaration came barley 24 hours after Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State declared his intention to quit his party, All Progressives Congress, APC.
Umahi said he cannot join the kind of APC with failed leaders in Ebonyi State.
According to him, he had benefited immensely from the PDP as chairman, deputy governor, and ultimately state governor.
He said he was focused on how to attract democratic dividends to the people of the state and not dirty politics.
“The clarification is that my relationship with Mr. President is because he is Mr. President, and he is my boss and the relationship is personal.
“Mr. President or any APC person has never asked me to come to APC, and they will never ask me, and there is no reason for me to leave my party PDP of which I am the party chairman,deputy governor and now governor.
“I have always insisted in character.
People that jumps from one party to the other should examine their characters, except if there is any problem within your party.
“As for today ,till tomorrow until Christ comes, there is no crisis in PDP. Even if there is a need for me to leave PDP, I can never leave PDP to the kind of APC in Ebonyi State.
“Because with the kind of leaders in Ebonyi APC, leaders that have failed Ebonyi State. I can never be on the same political platform with them.
“I am focused to do my job. I am focused in governance. I have always insisted that we should leave party politics to our party men and women, while as soon as you are elected, you should focus on your job.
“The fever that has been griping me since the day I was elected was for me to do my job, the dividends of democracy and the plight of our people.
“So they should leave me alone with this their dirty politics. I am focused; I am PDP. As a member of PDP, I have benefited on the platform to be a party chairman, to be a deputy governor, and now a governor. I am a man of character”, he insisted.
Could this be the same Umahi who has suddenly turned himself into a sacrificial lamb willing to go into political oblivion.
Leaving an opposition party that he once chaired its affairs in his home state?
Too many questions begging for an answer that may not be answered by this sacrificial lamb.
2021, still loading and Nigerians will hear more from Gov Umahi.