For daring to challenge Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State for the governorship seat in the coming gubernatorial election, Monica Eze, the founder and president of David Umahi Nweze Akuburoah Ebonyi Transformation Agenda, declares the APC candidate as unserious

MONICA Ada Chidinma Eze, the founder and president of David Umahi Nweze Akuburoah Ebonyi Transformation Agenda, DUNAETA, a non-governmental organisation, NGO, promoting and projecting good governance and virile democracy in Ebonyi State, has counselled Sonni Ogbuoji, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ebonyi State, to stop dreaming of defeating Dave Nweze Umahi, the incumbent governor and gubernatorial candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. According to Eze, the APC candidate lacks what it takes to defeat the governor.

Reacting to the recent statement by Ogbuorji that he is confident of defeating Umahi in the March, 2019 gubernatorial polls in Ebonyi State, Eze said she wondered where the APC candidate got his confidence. According to her, Ogbuorji is unpopular in the state and his eight years in the National Assembly has been unproductive, without any motion or bill to his credit. Besides, she said the serving senator could not boast of any achievement in his constituency. She said it would be difficult for such a person to defeat Umahi who has redefined governance and made the state a reference point for other governors in Nigeria in terms of provisions of dividends of democracy and practical infrastructural development and emancipation of our people.

She said further: “Going by the indices in the state at the moment, the margin of defeat is going to be 60/40 in favour of the APC as incumbency factor will not play any role in the election like it did in the 2015 elections and that the Ebonyi rice they are boasting of is actually rice coming from Kebbi State that is re-bagged in Abakaliki.”

Besides, she said: “I must confess that I am at a loss on how to justify Senator Ogbuoji claim of defeating Umahi when the only road leading to his home town was only recently constructed by Governor Umahi and on daily basis he observes one of the wonders of Governor Umahi’s feats (Presco Flyover) along Abakaliki – Enugu Express road where Senator Ogbuoji takes shelter in what he calls his Campaign State Secretariat.

She noted that Ogbuoji either doesn’t visit regularly or read news about Ebonyi State or failed to appreciate the feats of Umahi or even read some of the astounding achievements acknowledged by both world and national leaders including President Muhammad Buhari, who attested to the fact that Umahi had performed exceptionally well, when he visited Ebonyi State.

Eze, who is also the Technical Adviser, TA, on Media to Umahi, boasted that Ogbuorji will not secure up to 10 percent of the total votes in the March 2 polls. “Let me in conclusion urge all the good people of Ebonyi State to continue to rally round Governor Umahi in appreciation of his commitment towards building the Ebonyi of our common dream,” she said.

– Jan. 18, 2018 @ 16:29 GMT |