I can’t cope with Gov. Umahi’s leadership style,says Ebonyi APC chieftain *As he Defects to PDP

By Our Correspondent

An All Progressive Congress APC chieftain and former Commissioner for information and state orientation in Ebonyi state Chief Abia Onyeike, has defected to the People’s Democratic Party PDP.

According to him,  his decision to return to PDP remains that Gov. David Umahi is not  prepared to turn a new leaf in his dictatorial, totalitarian and autocratic leadership style in the  governance of Ebonyi state. He stressed that the situation has unleashed mass poverty and mass impoverishment on  Ebonyi citizenry.

Onyeike made this known in an open letter on Thursday while noting that the present leaders of PDP in the state now are tested leaders and  like-minded Patriots who are committed to the genuine development of Ebonyi state.

His words “I will remain opposed to Gov. Umahi’s government because of His lawless approach to governance and administration, the PDP in Ebonyi state must be used as a liberation movement to rescue Ebonyians from the stranglehold of Gov. Umahi, whose inordinate ambition is to hand over power to his proxy with his son as the next Speaker of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, come 2023.

“In my own Afikpo South LGA, Gov. Umahi has failed the people through his continuous support  and singular empowerment for a political block  which operates  the MoreCanBeDone killer-squad and  his failure to set up a panel of inquiry to investigate recent killings in the area has made the political faction more impudent  and virulent in the vicinity. Umahi’s government is far from being a democracy. “It is a self-serving anarchist banditry”, apologies to Dr. Chidi Osuagwu who used the term to describe the excesses of anti-democratic charlatans in our midst.

“That Gov. David Umahi is not  prepared to turn a new leaf in his dictatorial, totalitarian and autocratic leadership style in the  governance of Ebonyi state-a situation that has unleashed mass poverty and mass impoverishment on  Ebonyi citizenry.

” Gov. Umahi wants to continue in his usual government of anarchy. through which instability , violence and lawlessness are exacerbated in the governance of the state. As we speak, a new wave of  killings and loss of lives is gradually unfolding in the state  in Ezza North and Ezza South LGAs, no thanks to  the regime of impunity prevalent in the state. The political space is already fouled by antagonistic propaganda being fuelled and targeted against those wanting to toe a different and independent path of political party affiliation, especially those who have expressed their resolve to be in PDP.

Onyeike added that Gov. Umahi, sees public office not as an instrument for the provision of welfare for the citizenry, but as a platform for personal and family agrandisement. He is self-willed, self-opinionated, self-serving, self-centered and selfish.

“Ebonyi looks like being in a state of war because of Umahi’s extremely greedy, covetous and nepotic administration.