The Peoples Democratic Party has described Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, as an attention seeker.
This was contained in a statement signed by the PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Saturday.
The party said since Umahi joined the APC, he had become confused, having realised that he joined a ‘one chance’ bus, with strange and deceitful co-travellers.
The opposition party added that it has become clear that “Umahi is now politically floating” and seeks to use “an unwarranted attack on governors elected on the platform of the PDP to actualise his desperation for public relevance.”
The statement read, “PDP finds it very pathetic that, having mortgaged his conscience, over his self-confessed love for the oppressive administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Umahi is manifestly accommodating the daily incidences of killings, wanton destruction of property, kidnapping and other acts of terrorism going on in Ebonyi state and the nation at large under the APC.”
The PDP was reacting to Umahi’s comments in a television interview where he suggested that some governors from the opposition party are against the zoning of the 2023 presidency to the South.
“One or two governors that own PDP, their body language suggests that and I can tell you from a reliable source that they are not thinking that way just for their own interests,” he said.
Also reacting, governors elected on the platform of the PDP, in a statement titled, “Umahi should face APC misrule and his frustrations,” accused Umahi of sabotaging the PDP during the 2019 election while he was still a member.
The statement, signed by the Director-General of the PDP-GF Hon. CID Maduabum, read in part, “The PDP Governors Forum is outraged at the attempt by the Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, who illegally and immorally sits on a PDP mandate and calls himself an APC Governor to turn truth on its head.
“Umahi left the PDP for the APC, according to him, because of the love he has for President Buhari, among other flimsy reasons, irrespective of the maladministration and daily incidents of destruction of lives and properties currently going on in Ebonyi State and the entire country under the watch of APC
“Umahi sabotaged the PDP in 2019 elections in his quest to deliver 25 per cent to his APC benefactors. It took the determined resistance of the Ebonyi people to checkmate him. It was good riddance that he subsequently left the PDP for APC instead of continuing his role as an APC mole.“
