{"id":6395,"date":"2019-03-13T16:04:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T16:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2019-03-13T16:04:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T16:04:38","slug":"umahi-set-to-join-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/umahi-set-to-join-apc","title":{"rendered":"Umahi set to join APC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ebonyi state governor, David Umahi is set to decamp to the All Progressives Congress (APC), latest May 29th.<\/p>\n<p>The candidate of the APC, Senator Sonni Ogbuoji disclosed this in Enugu while rejecting the just concluded governorship election in which Umahi who ran on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was declared the winner.<\/p>\n<p>In his words: \u201cthe information we have now is that while the governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, had acted as a mole in PDP all along, he has started making moves to ditch PDP and cross over to the APC on or before May 29.<\/p>\n<p>We are aware that the votes that enthroned Umahi were procured with the connivance of the system, a reason there are gloomy faces all over the state after the announcement of the claimed victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senator who is representing Ebonyi South in the upper chamber told reporters that having known the antecedents of the governor, they would not accept him in APC.<\/p>\n<p>He also blamed the failure of the party in the election on the internal wrangling among the members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat rather happened as all party insiders know is that the APC in Ebonyi worked so much against itself. By this allusion, I don\u2019t indict all the members or leadership, I am actually taking about the moles among us that double dealt and made things impossible for us while they cloaked like part of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ogbuoji commended those party members who worked assiduously for the party.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWith this, I also commend and doff my hat for those committed members and leaders of our party, APC that worked assiduously to ensure we made it big and good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to assure you that even with the gang-up, I and the party gave a good account of the outing and made the ruling party understand that Ebonyi people can\u2019t be taken for a ride.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI therefore call for consolidation and stronger bond in the party, and that none \u2013 including the candidates should despair in the face of the development of this rape of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsolidating a new system takes tenacity and resolute steady effort to achieve and our great party should not relent in giving our dear state the opposition and checks we need in order to stop gangster politicians riding roughshod over our future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am aware also of those among us that desired the change we targeted to bring, seemingly worked for it but in the actual sense worked in contrary direction and deliberately frustrated the change they claimed to belong to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebonyi state governor, David Umahi is set to decamp to the All Progressives Congress (APC), latest May 29th. The candidate of the APC, Senator Sonni Ogbuoji disclosed this in Enugu while rejecting the just concluded governorship election in which Umahi who ran on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was declared the winner. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":6397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,127,209,173],"class_list":["post-6395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-candidates","tag-governor","tag-parties"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Umahi set to join APC? - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/umahi-set-to-join-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Umahi set to join APC?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ebonyi state governor, David Umahi is set to decamp to the All Progressives Congress (APC), latest May 29th. 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