David Umahi, the minister of works, has stated that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will let him choose who will take his place as the senator for Ebonyi South.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Umahi resigned from the Senate after President Bola Tinubu named him a minister.
After rejecting claims from the candidates of the Labour Party (LP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the election petition tribunal, which was in session in Abuja on September 8, declared that Umahi was legitimately elected senator for Ebonyi South.
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Umahi stated that he has the authority to choose his replacement on Saturday while visiting Gov. Francis Nwifuru as part of his tour of the state to check federal roads.
He claimed to be a significant APC stakeholder because only the governor ranks above him in the party in Ebonyi.
“We would ensure that the party zones the ticket to Ohaozara (his Local Government Area), and it will not leave there. We would discuss the issue with the governor and, through him, run through the court process wherever the opposition takes us,” he said.
The minister expressed his gratitude to the governor for helping him make arrangements to have Chief Onyekachi Nwebonyi (APC, Ebonyi Central) succeed him as the Senate Deputy Majority Leader.
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“I asked if you could facilitate the process, and you did, and it is currently working. It is not every governor that would want his subject to grow, but I want to assure you of complete comfort.
“President Tinubu does not like division, and be assured that you are not struggling for the party’s leadership with anyone,” he said.
Umahi asserted that the state’s entry into mainstream politics was a result of his decision to defect from the PDP to the APC.
“That decision nearly took my life; my properties were burnt and I became the enemy of the entire Igbo, but the decision fetched all of us our present position. So support the governor to deepen the party in the state and the Southeast zone,” he said.
Umahi emphasised that he had held that position during the electioneering time when he said that President Tinubu was appointed by God to lead the nation.
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He urged the Igbo community to support Tinubu, telling Peter Obi of the Labour Party and other Igbo stakeholders that “the President gave us a foremost ministerial position even when we didn’t vote well for him.”
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