Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, on Tuesday debunked
the rumours making the rounds that he has defected to the All Progressives
Congress (APC) in the state, stressing that he has no plan to leave his party, Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
Briefing journalists in Abakaliki, the state
capital, the governor said he cannot join the kind of APC with failed leaders
in Ebonyi State.
He said: “So they should leave me alone with this
their dirty politics. I am focused; 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.
"As for today, tomorrow and 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."
He said he was focused on how to attract democratic
dividends to the people of the state and not dirty politics, in spite of his
relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari.
Umahi noted further that “the clarification is that
my relationship with the president is because he is the president, and he is my
boss and the relationship is personal. The president or any APC member has
never asked me to join APC, and they will never ask me, and there is no reason
for me to leave my party (PDP) of which I was the party chairman, deputy
governor and now governor."
The governor who explained that he had benefitted
immensely from the PDP as a state chairman, deputy governor and now governor,
noted that people who jump from one party to the other should reexamine their
character-except if there is any problem within your party. I have always been consistent
in character.
“Because with the kind of leaders in Ebonyi State
APC have failed the state. I can never be on the same political platform with
them.
“I am focused on my job. I am focused on
governance. I have always insisted that we should leave party politics to our
party men and women. 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.”
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