Our attention has been drawn to a gutter press statement on the person of His Excellency, Engr. Dr. David Nweze Umahi, fnse, fnate, the Governor of Ebonyi State and Chairman, Southeast Governors' Forum which Ali Odefa, the imposed PDP NVC, Southeast Zone accepts responsibility of authorship by appending his name and address.
Considering the lilliputian personality of the author vis-a-vis the globally renowned personality of Governor Umahi, we would have elected not to dignify his gibberish by joining issues with him, but having realised that the agenda of Ebonyi PDP which Odefa is part of is anchored on the desperation to chisel Governor Umahi's character and reputation at all costs for leaving the party; we, in APC won't allow that to happen unchallenged, hence this rejoinder.
It is obvious that the losses the PDP in Ebonyi State is suffering following the exit of Governor Umahi and his followers from the party six months ago have become a perpetual albatross for the leadership of the party. It is for this reason that they derive so much psychological comfort from calling the Governor names as they fly malicious falsehood in the face of facts in their press releases and press conferences.
It is laughable that the office of NVC which he occupies without legitimacy has so swollen the head of Odefa that he now prides himself as a factor whom Governor Umahi will waste his precious time, talking about. We are not surprised at his high-horse posturing because Odefa's pomposity is ingrained; it is a trait that remains incorrigible.
The truth is that Governor Umahi's attention is largely focused on leadership excellence and the methodologies of attracting more developmental projects for the good people of Ebonyi State from the Federal Government than garrulity unlike the PDP leadership in the State which will not spare a day without going to the media to spread one mendacity or the other against the Ebonyi State Government and the person of Governor Umahi just to mislead the general public. Through their paranoid schizophrenic Publicity Secretary, the same PDP concocted and fabricated news of Chief Austin Umahi's "appointment" as Governor Umahi's Chief of Staff and circulated same all over the social media. Whatever they intend to achieve with all these falsehood; only they can tell, but we assure them that they will never succeed because we will always be on hand to counter them and their wickedness.
Governor Umahi as Chief Security Officer of Ebonyi State will not brief the AIG Zone 9 on frivolities; it must be on issues that bother on the security of the State and indeed the security of the entire Southeast geopolitical zone to nip in the bud any act capable of causing a breach of public peace in the area. One therefore wonders why Odefa should be jittery about that if he had no skeletons, rattling in his cupboard. President Olusegun Obasanjo once said that "whoever has nothing to hide, has no reason to fear". Odefa is indeed hunted by his own escapades and this explains why he is afraid of even his own shadows. Security agencies work with a person's records of criminality. If Odefa and the so-called PDP leaders in Ebonyi State have dirty antecedents, it behoves security agencies to place them on their watch list. It is called intelligence and it is within the purview of their rules of engagement. So, Odefa should go and clear his messy antecedents and stop calling Governor Umahi names.
Talking about family pedigree and character; Odefa ought to know that a man's attitude in the wider society is a true reflection of the family that produced him. It is therefore ridiculous that Odefa whom everybody from his community and beyond knows as a tout, an unrepentant cultist and a known gun man now compares his family with the family of the Umahis which is highly rated and respected in the entire Uburu Kingdom and beyond. Truly, the allure of office has a way of inebriating the soul; the office of NVC so intoxicates Odefa to the point that a butterfly like him now thinks itself a bird. Indeed, implosion awaits a toad which envies the size of an elephant.
However, we do not blame Odefa; we blame politics particularly as played in our clime where there is no respect. Otherwise, the likes of Odefa wouldn't be anywhere closer to Governor Umahi as to juxtapose his family with the first family. Be that as it may, we advise Odefa to confine himself his level in politics and restrict his invidious vulgarism among his playmates. Governor Umahi made him and brought him to political limelight; he should for once exhibit some sense of gratitude.
He whom God has blessed, no man can curse. Therefore, no amount of vilifications championed by the leadership the PDP in Ebonyi State against Governor Umahi can vitiate the truism that the Governor has the mandate of God and if it so pleases God to take him higher, their peevish and truculent tirades can never halt it.
In God we trust.
APC
Umahi is the answer
Ogbuatu Simbad
State Publicity Secretary APC, Ebonyi State
Publisher: Don Martyn L.O Nwosu
Ikeduru APC Media Hub
08032950897
Ikeduruapcmediahub@gmail.com
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