UMAHI’S BLIND AMBITION IS THE NEMESIS OF HIS CONSCIENCE

By Senator Emmanuel Onwe

“I offered this movement [from PDP to APC] as a protest against the injustice being done to South East by PDP.” - Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State

There are a number of perfect justifications that the governor of Ebonyi State, Engr Dave Umahi, could have advanced for his decampment from the PDP to the APC 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.

What is “unjust” is to have systematically sabotaged the 2019 presidential campaign of the PDP in Ebonyi State at every turn, not to mention the financial and structural sponsorship of opposition candidates against PDP candidate in the National Assembly election.

But for the funds I provided the Atiku/Obi State Campaign Coordinator, he would have failed catastrophically in his duties during the presidential campaign rally in Abakaliki on 2nd February, 2019.

To be clear, the following facts represent the degree of PDP’s “injustice” against the South East between 1999 and 2015:

1. Sen. Chuba Okadigbo; Sen. Evans Enwerem; Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim and Sen. Ken Nnamani each became a President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under PDP.
2. Sen. Ike Ekweremadu became Deputy President of the Senate under a PDP federal administration.
3. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha became a Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives under a PDP federal administration.
4. Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim became the Secretary to the Government of the Federation under a PDP federal administration (the first in the history of the South East).
5. Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala became the Finance Minister & Coordinating Minister of the Federal Executive Council of the Government of the Federation under a PDP administration.
6. Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika was appointed the Chief of Army Staff under a PDP administration (the first in the history of the South East).
7. Dr Ogbonnaya Onovo was appointed the Inspector General of Police under a PDP federal administration (the first of its kind in the history of the South East).
8. Dr Aruma Ote and Dr Ndidi Onyiuke were respectively appointed the DG of the Nigerian Stock Exchange under a PDP federal administration.
9. A state burial was granted in honour of General Odumegwu Ojukwu by a PDP President (unimaginable under the configuration of the current federal administration).
10. A ministerial appointment was granted to the son of late General Aguiyi Ironsi (unimaginable under the current federal administration).
11. IPOB was neither proscribed nor its members slaughtered like wild animals on the streets of Igbo towns and cities under a PDP federal administration.
12. Enugu-Abakaliki-Ogoja trans-saharan African highway was constructed to a quality standard by a PDP federal government.
13. Federal University Ikwo was constructed, commissioned and commenced under a PDP federal administration.
14. Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, was designated under a PDP federal administration.
15. Federal College of Agriculture, Ishiagu, Ebonyi State was designated under a PDP federal administration.
16. Judges who hail from Ebonyi State were elevated to the Supreme Court of Nigeria for the first time in the history of State under a PDP federal administration.
17. Akanu Ibiam International Airport was so designated under a PDP federal administration.
18. The PDP gifted Governor Umahi the opportunity to serve as its state chairman for 4 years, as a Deputy Governor for 4 years and now as a two-term Governor.

I could go on and on. Not a single one of these attainments has been replicated under the current APC federal administration, nor is it possible to envisage such replication.

Opinions are not facts. In the immortal words of George Orwell: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

Umahi’s blackmail against the PDP is worse than pure wind, it’s pure crap!

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Senator Onwe represented Ebonyi Central at the Senate for 6 months circa 2010, after spearheading the gubernatorial campaign of David Umahi in 2015, he reluctantly accepted to be Ebonyi state commissioner for information. Following the election of 2019, he refused the same position and decided to rather mentor youths than be in government.

Move From fry pan to fire , we greet him from here o !
May he accomplish his aim of decamping o

What he’s saying is that the second fiddle spot the Ibos are playing in PDP can no longer be condoned.

If being a senate president is true power, then why are the Ibos clamoring for the slot of the presidency?

Since 1999, the Ibos have been giving the PDP bloc vote and still they don’t deem it fit to put an Ibo man on the ballot as a presidential aspirant, that exactly is Umahi grievances.

These guys opening threads showcasing senate president, speakers, and etc as contribution of PDP to the Ibos need to have their brain checked.

C’mon you guys are major ethnic group too, so man up and confront PDP for this injustice once and for all.

Esau sold his birthright for a plate of porridge.
Umahi sold his for less.

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Hmmn

Oya bring him down as you people are fond of bringing unaself down.

Hiss

Are we not supposed to be happy that he's in Another party?... All these men don mad ooo. We shouldn't be in one Party nah

Of course, governor Dave Umahi is entitled to his freedom of association but his should never sacrifice his selfish personal ambition on the alter of seeking a collective goodwill of the south east region.Politicians of his kind have trod & are still trodding the landscape.

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helinues:
Oya bring him down as you people are fond of bringing unaself down. Hiss

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Keep quiet there! Talking as if any region is absolve of complicit of this political crime.Guess Rauf Aregbesola/ Kayode Fayemi/Babatunde Fashola are not undermining the political might of Tinubu?

Late Papa Ajasin was undermined by Osinowo backed them.Late Akintola frantically wanted to pull down late Awolowo politically until he was confused by the Western political crisis of 1964-66.

Lt.Gen.Oladapo Diya & co were long condemned of guilt by the Soun of Ogbomosho & Oba Tejuosho even before the SIP make its findings know during the phantom Dec 1997 coup.

Late MKO Abiola was politically undermined by even NADECO members.Unknown to many, the initial ring-leaders of NADECO which was set up to reclaim the mandate of Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola(Yorubaman) were Ibos(Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe-who had previously served as General Babangida’s number two/ Vice-President/ Chief of General Staff, Supreme Headquarters) and Rear-Admiral Ndubisi Kanu former Military Governor of Lagos State.)They both refused to flee the country.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/03/08/the-black-monk/amp/

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Umahi will regret it big

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helinues:
Oya bring him down as you people are fond of bringing unaself down.

Hiss

That what yorubas are known for don't project your self on Igbos please

LegendHero:
What he’s saying is that the second fiddle spot the Ibos are playing in PDP can no longer be condoned.

If being a senate president is true power, then why are the Ibos clamoring for the slot of the presidency?

Since 1999, the Ibos have been giving the PDP bloc vote and still they don’t deem it fit to put an Ibo man on the ballot as a presidential aspirant, that exactly is Umahi grievances.

These guys opening threads showcasing senate president, speakers, and etc as contribution of PDP to the Ibos need to have their brain checked.

C’mon you guys are major ethnic group too, so man up and confront PDP for this injustice once and for all.

Inasamuch as we don’t align in the same stance, you made a big point. Those selling Igbo birthright in the PDP knows themselves and their end is near.

Racoon:
Of course, governor Dave Umahi is entitled to his freedom of association but his should never sacrifice his selfish personal ambition on the alter of seeking a collective goodwill of the south east region.Politicians of his kind have trod & are still trodding the landscape.

What is the collective goodwill? Senate-Presidency as a major achievement for a supposed major ethnic group since 1999? And you list Ministers that even the smallest minority group have all attained. Shame on you all.

Lol
Even the so called senator will decamp soon

Why is it that people in this group like this. We all know that the reason for all this issue is because of the Igbo's decision to back Jonathan.

Igbo had to choose between Jona in 2011 and Presidency in 2019.
Had it been Igbo insisted that power shift back to the north, the people would have gone to the same ethnic minorities and tell them that igboman is domineering, selfish and greedy.

As for Umahi I see him as possible queuing behind a northerner or gunning for ministerial position in exchange for rigging Ebonyi state