By Yemi Balogun The Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora (AESID) has said the State Governor and a presidential asp...
By Yemi Balogun
The Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in the Diaspora
(AESID) has said the State Governor and a presidential aspirant in the platform
of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dave Umahi lacks the wide acceptance to
clinch the ticket of the party.
Umahi had while reacting to Atiku’s victory during a visit
of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) and National Association of Women
Journalists (NAWOJ) Presidents to Ebonyi boasted that if he clinches the
Presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress he will defeat former Vice
President Atiku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before noon on the
election day.
DAILY POST reports that after weeks of postponement, the
ruling party inaugurated the presidential screening committee on Monday at
Transcorp Hotel, Abuja and subsequently commenced the screening of the
aspirants.
Reacting to the remarks in a statement issued Monday in
Abuja, the President of the group, Pascal Oluchchukwu expressed concern that
rather than congratulate Atiku, Umahi thought he could use the media to launch
and launder himself before his floundering APC leaders and delegates.
It said, “Already, we know that none of his party leaders
takes him as a contender in the race for the APC ticket as he has, in his
timidity never even rallied any force within or beyond his region to be so
truly considered an aspirant.
“Flowing therefrom, we consider such an infantile boast to
defeat Atiku- a very influential former Vice President whose shoes we consider
extremely too big for an Umahi to untie.”
The group noted that if Umahi sacrifices his “kidney” for
the APC ticket, no sane person will entrust or gift him with the party’s
presidential ticket.
The group said the presidential hopeful should desist from
attacking personalities and making very empty boasts with his deceptive and
cosmetic projects in Ebonyi.
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