Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has debunked claims that he decamped to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying he remains an “unshakable member of the Peoples Democratic Party.”
Umahi, while debunking the reports, said he was misquoted as there was no way he could have made such a statement.
The governor spoke through the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Uchenna Orji, who released a statement on the issue.
Orji said the governor was misrepresented by some mischief makers who he claimed were hiding under partisan politics to malign him for selfish reasons.
The statement read, “In their desperate attempt to cause disaffection against the state government, they mischievously misrepresented the governor as saying ‘I am the only governor that belongs to the PDP and the APC.
“This blackmail is nothing but a cheap and childish fabrication that is irritably displeasing to the sensibilities of the ordinary man.
“It is a common sense that no party member in Nigeria can belong to another political party at a time.
“The governor never said that he belongs to the APC.
“He is unshakable, a PDP chieftain and has been a great party man, whose track records as historic state party chairman and currently the PDP governor and leader in Ebonyi State are known and admired by people of goodwill.
“The governor only said in the course of his speech that those who are in the habit of hiding under partisan politics to peddle lies against the state government were on a frolic of their own as people of different political colourations including the APC know the virtues of his administration.”
