Umahi shades Wike and PDP Governors in latest riposte

Executive Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi has reacted to recent claims by Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, who tackled the recently defected governor for biting the finger that fed him.

In an interview on Arise Television, Governor Umahi claimed that he had played a major contributory role to the fortunes of the People’s Democratic Party and that he made the party what it is today contrariwise to Governor Wike’s claims.

Eko Hot Blog recalls that Wike had in a recent interview said that “Umahi has the right to move to the APC, it’s his constitutional right, but we cannot in all cases allow Umahi blackmail PDP that made him chairman of the party, deputy governor, and governor and then you now realize there is an injustice against southeast.”

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The Ebonyi State Governor, who officially defected from the People’s Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress on Thursday, said that some PDP Governors who are in the habit of dishing out vitriols against the President Muhammadu Buhari administration ‘go up and down at night’ begging.

“People say PDP made me what I am. That is absolute rubbish. We made PDP what PDP is,” Umahi said.

“It is the people that make the party and I’ve contributed so much in the making of PDP not the other way around. I’ve been a peacemaker.

“I’ve been a negotiator and even the Governor of Edo State coming on board was my prophecy which my fellow Governor directed the working committee to come and probe me but that was a big minus for them because you don’t probe a sitting Governor.

“Another one is that the PDP wants me to be castigating Mr President. I have no other boss apart from Mr President. And by my culture and upbringing, you do not insult the elders. It’s not in my character.

“And some of them [PDP Governors] speak rubbish in the day and in the night they’re caps in hands and they start going up and down. I don’t do like that. So Mr President remains my boss, father and boss and I’ve no regret about that.”