The Ebonyi state Commissioner for Information Barr Uchenna Orji has said that those attacking Governor, David Umahi are frustrated political loafers, who hitherto benefited from the governor’s magnanimity.
Orji who stated this in a statement in Abakaliki said “Such utterances were the naked expressions of the bitterness of hearts of people who are at war with good conscience and who have been bewitched by their unmitigated sensational political extremism.” The commissioner was reacting to comments credited to some Ebonyi residents that governor Umahi allegedly plunged the state deeper into economic hardship and stagnation while pursuing his presidential ambition.
Orji said, “Our attention has been drawn to the acrimonious utterances against the Governor of Ebonyi State, His Excellency, Chief David Umahi, by a group of politically frustrated loafers, namely: Godwin Udeakaji, Haroun Ajah, and Abia Onyike.
“We wish to state that the said utterances were the naked expressions of the bitterness of hearts of people who are at war with good conscience and who have been bewitched by their unmitigated sensational political extremism. It is even most ignominious that these negative utterances against the noble leadership hallmarks of our performing governor are the orchestrations of people who were once fans of Governor Umahi’s administration but fell out of grace for their undesirable and infamous personal idiosyncrasies.
“The lessons of the just-concluded presidential primary are clear; the governor was seen by Nigerians as the strongest voice for South-East presidency and the best presidential material of South-East extraction as can be seen from his gallantry during the primary elections. For the records, the Governor’s achievements were going to speak for him and not the state resources, as all the ongoing projects of the state government have been progressing geometrically even during the period of presidential campaigns and they are executed with the minutest resources and most transparent processes.
“We see the utterances of Godwin Udeakaji, Haroun Ajah, and Abia Onyike as acts of people who are dead in conscience, hardened in heart, blind to the facts, deaf to the truth, and saddened by the glowing attributes of Governor Umahi’s administration,” he stated.
