It’s now official. The governor of Ebonyi State, Mr Dave Umahi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and his entire cabinet, have formally cross-carpeted to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).
This latest development brings to two, the number of states controlled by the APC in the South-East geo-political zone. The other state is Imo State.
The governor justified his decision on the injustice meted to the South-East geo-political zone by the PDP.
Speaking with journalists, Umahi said he had no regrets moving to the APC.Â
He said, “Let me clear the air and state that I never sought for the ticket of PDP Presidency and I will not. Whoever that said that I moved to APC because they refused to zone the ticket to me is being very mischievous. Because even if PDP promises me, an individual a presidential ticket, how does it work?
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“It is expected that over 8000 delegates would elect the person and such promise can not happen without more than 10 or 20 people. People are being very mischievous but I tell you, there are a lot of prominent people from South-East that can take the slot of PDP.
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“Why am I moving to APC?, some people said I was promised this and that but I tell you, there is no such discussion. APC never promised me any position, they never promised South-East any position, there was no such discussion, however, I offered this movement as a protest to the injustice being done to South-East by the PDP since 1998 till date.”
