The plan by Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state to contest within the 2023 Presidential election has been rejected by the Affiliation of Ebonyi Indigenes within the Diaspora.
Recall that Governor Umahi had on Tuesday met with President Muhammadu Buhari on the Aso Rock Villa and thereafter introduced his intention to succeed him.
AESID's President, Paschal Oluchukwu, in an announcement mentioned it acquired with blended emotions the information that the governor declared his intention to contest for presidency, saying he ought to give stewardship of his seven years within the state.
Based on Oluchukwu, Nigeria received't survive every week underneath the "dictatorship style of governor Umahi" as president.
He mentioned, "How has he secured our tiny Ebonyi State with the constant and reported assaults and communal clashes recorded underneath his administration, a few of that are allegedly fuelled even by his political appointees.
"As we converse, 1000's who had been displaced by communal battle in Effium, Ohaukwu Native Authorities Space of the state are but to return to their ancestral houses, unnecessary to talk of receiving any succour in any respect from the Umahi administration. "The 1000's of victims who had been additionally displaced in three communities in Ezza North LGA the place he's lavishing public funds in constructing a global cargo airport stay displaced as they're but to be duly compensated by the Umahi administration. Starvation and poverty have been weaponised by his authorities such that every one would possibly come to beg for crumbs on his desk. "Any surprise Ebonyi is now formally rated the poverty capital of whole Southern Nigeria by the Nationwide Bureau of Statistics. "With the best way and method he has dealt with the state's Home of Meeting which is ordinarily a separate arm of presidency, are we not sure {that a} Nationwide Meeting underneath an Umahi presidency can be worse than the present rubber-stamp legislative arm that we've in Nigeria? Will Nigeria really survive only a one-week reign of a dictator like Umahi? "AESID would want to ask; which impression and mark has Governor Umahi made in Ebonyi's vital sectors equivalent to education- given we're categorised as educationally-less-developed, health-given our poor maternal mortality fee and agriculture-given our wealthy potentials on this sector? What concerning the state's civil service he has left in its shadows, together with lecturers in our State-owned tertiary establishments whose salaries he has withheld and pays any pittance he seems like? Is it the retirees a few of whom have died of their pains and agonies over non-payment of their due entitlements or their sorrowing relations that may drum assist for Umahi's touted 2023 presidential ambition? "Mysterious deaths such because the sudden 'disappearance' of some 5 NELAN contractors someday in November final yr amongst different instances of suspicious demises all factors to the alleged diabolic and depraved extent the federal government has gone in its dealings with the now beleaguered Ebonyi lots. "Moderately than present jobs for our teeming populace, what the Umahi authorities specialises on is to nominate, by way of proxies, our vibrant youths who every day sing its praises on the social media for some pittance. "For this noble accountability platform in particular, therefore, we believe it is time for him to be held to account for the little opportunity he has had in just one, out of a total of the 36 states of the federation that he now aspires to pilot their affairs."
