The Ebonyi State government has lampooned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state for what it called the unfounded comments credited to its Caretaker Chairman, Elder Fred Udeogu, against Gov Dave Umahi.
In a press release signed by Hon. Uchenna Orji, Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, the state government described the allegations from Udeogu as “visionless and empty” of a party that was discourteous held at a drinking place,” adding, “we are surprised that the maker of the press extract could have the effrontery to connect the performing Governor of Ebonyi State to the unending woes of PDP in Ebonyi State.
It said this is coming when Governor Umahi, the government and people of Ebonyi State have gloriously moved to a progressive party of national spread, the All Progressives Congress (APC).”
He stated that It was understandable that the mass movement of Ebonyi people to APC has caused a colossal collapse of the PDP from its very fabric, insisting that the remnants of that party should be brave enough to face the bitter reality of the fragile condition of PDP in the state.
He further described the allegation that the Governor unleashed violence and politically-motivated killings in the state after their massive defection to APC as the most unintelligent shenanigans of the most frustrated opposition party in the history of the state.
He stated that If the present crop of leaders of PDP in the state had accused Ebonyi State government of punishing them with unprecedented transformational projects or exposing their inefficiency and failure to attract development to Ebonyi State, such would have been understandable.
The statement further says,” the good people of Ebonyi State cannot be deceived because we have the history and record of the involvement of each of the present leaders of PDP in the monumental violence, politically motivated killings and communal clashes that engulfed Ebonyi State like a holocaust between 2001 and 2003 for which their leaders were the protagonists, as we have the details including video clips of how they carried each other’s mock coffin as a smoke screen to hide their atrocities. We are aware of the various but halted plots of the PDP to import weaponry and machinery to unleash terror on parts of the state for the ill-motives of Mr. Fred Udeogu and his group of PDP members.”
Continuing, he maintained that, ” we are not unaware that this new marriage of the formerly estranged political titans is not without violent motives, but they should be assured that our security surveillance has been networked in every part of the state to dismantle such orchestrations and forestall a re-occurrence of a show down of angry Abuja group in the State”.
Orji further called on Ebonyians to disregard and discountenance the press release of the Udeogu group of PDP, held on 29th March, 2021, alleging it to an idle and directionless cover up lamentation to curry the sympathy of the gullible and attract the attention of the focused Divine Mandate Administration to their self inflicted woes. According to him, “Ebonyi state is safer, stronger, better and happier in the hands of a performer per excellence, His Excellency, Engr. Chief David Nweze Umahi FNSE, FNATE even as we move into the Next Level of development under the All Progressives Congress (APC)”.
