Tag Archives: Dave Umahi

Defection: My Friend, Umahi Wants To Be President, Says Wike

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has slammed his Ebonyi State counterpart, Governor David Umahi, over his reasons for leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to him, Governor Umahi left the PDP because he wants to be the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023 and not injustice meted on the South East by the opposition party, ...

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Umahi To Secondus: I’m Leaving PDP For APC

The Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, told the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja on Tuesday that he was leaving the party. He said he would join the ruling All Progressives Congress which he claimed would protect the interest of the South-East in the 2023 elections. Our correspondent gathered that Umahi told the members of the ...

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Umahi Is Catalyst, Creator Of Modern Ebonyi, Says Aide

Lady Monica Eze who was recently reappointed as the Technical Assistant (TA) on Media to Governor David Nweze Umahi  of Ebonyi State has described the current dispensation in the life of Ebonyi State and her people as a period of triple celebrations: Celebration of the 60th Independence anniversary of Nigeria, 24th anniversary of the creation of Ebonyi State and creation ...

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S/East Govs To Unveil Security Outfit, Urge Anyim, Arthur Eze To Cease Fire

South East  Governors Forum, yesterday, said the much-awaited joint security network for the South East zone will be finally unveiled and given a unique name during the next meeting of the governors with the leadership of Ohaneze, National Assembly members and other leaders of the zone. They said after the naming of the joint security network, governments of the five states ...

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Umahi Must Go To Confession

Casmir Igbokwe If the Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, were to be a Catholic, he would have been required to go for an urgent confession. And it must be to a bishop because his sins are mortal and have gone beyond confessing to a priest. Even after that, he would still need to apologise to the Ebonyi State correspondents of ...

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Editors Demand End To Harassment Of Journalists By Ebonyi Govt

The Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, has noted with deep concerns, the persistent harassment of journalists in Ebonyi State on the orders of the state power brokers, including the Governor of the State, Mr. David Umahi. The latest is the arrest of a reporter with Vanguard Newspapers, Mr. Peter Okutu, on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 at the behest of the ...

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Biafra Security Service Is Back, Says Kanu

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu has revealed that the Biafra Security Service (BSS), contrary to the claim that it has been disbanded, is still very much intact and would return in full force soon. Kanu in a live broadcast from the Biafra radio yesterday explained that the security outfit is secretly being reestablished for better ...

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After Attack On Ekweremadu, IPOB Targets Umahi

After its controversial attack on a former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekeremadu, in Nuremberg, Germany, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Wednesday said its next target would be the Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, if he failed to retrace his steps. In a statement in Awka, Anambra State, an official of the group, China Edoziem, described those condemning the ...

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