BY VICTOR NWEGEDE
Ebonyi Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Barr Orji Uchenna Orji on Sunday said the continuous outburst and worry of the People's Democratic Party since the defection of Governor David Umahi from the party to the ruling All Progressives Congress is a clear indication of hopelessness and catastrophes beclouding the future of the PDP family in the country.
Orji in a statement made available to NATIONAL PANEL also stated that the PDP has continued to nurse the pains of Umahi's exit from the party to APC as evidenced in the recent statement by the PDP Governors’ forum.
NATIONAL PANEL gathered that the PDP Governors’ Forum through its Director-General, Hon CID Maduabum, had in a statement attacked Governor Umahi over his comment against the PDP on Presidential zoning while featuring on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Friday.
Orji, however, in his reaction, said the PDP had become a shadow of itself and had continued to deteriorate in strength and character since Governor Umahi left.
The Information Commissioner said, for the PDP Governors’ Forum to delegate a staff of the party to issue a press statement against Umahi, vindicated public judgement that the PDP as presently constituted had no intrinsic political value and altruistic existential relevance.
According to the statement, the D-G of PDP Governors’ Forum, his principals and their other agents should leave Governor Umahi out of the forewarned woes of the party, and should inexcusably face and reap the imminent mass exodus and imminent catastrophe that face the future of PDP.
He further stated, the PDP Governors’ Forum rather than making a clear response to the national burning issue of PDP’s zoning of the Presidency as challenged by Governor Umahi, chose to be absolutely evasive and unwittingly begging the question, in its reaction.
He also stressed, "while we consider it unnecessary to glorify the worthless and baseless sensation promoted in his unsubstantiated claims by joining issues with his reckless assertions evidencing nothing but hopelessness and regret of losing an ingenious powerhouse in the person of His Execllency, Engr. Chief David Nweze Umahi, FNSE, FNATE, Governor David Umahi, Governor with a great difference, we find it instructive to register that delegating a staff of PDP and a man of shabby pedigree to issue a press release against a well seated Governor vindicates public judgement that PDP as presently constituted has no intrinsic political value and altruistic existential relevance.
“It is inordinately partisan for a D-G of a derailed political party to speak derogatorily, abusively and distortively of the person and achievements of a Governor who has distinguished himself as a leading reference point in democratic governance.
“We will rather demand that the D-G of PDP Governors’ Forum visits Ebonyi State soonest to be a witness to the wonderful exploits of the Umahi’s administration and be perpetually estopped from being an agent of fake information which his party currently stand for.
"He is further invited to note that it is an insult to the collective sensibilities of the people of Ebonyi State for him to hold that one of the most peaceful and one of the fastest developing States in Nigeria is associated with ‘destruction of lives and properties
“It is crystal clear that since Governor Umahi left the PDP, the party has continued unmitigated in deteriorating in strength and character as it is today a shadow of itself.
“It is manifestly clear that his response to the national burning issue of PDP’s zoning of the Presidency as challenged by our dear Governor is absolutely evasive and thus unwittingly begging the question.
“The D-G of PDP Governors’ Forum, his principals and their other agents should leave our dear Governor out of the forewarned woes of the party, and please inexcusably face and reap the imminent mass exodus and immanent catastrophe that face the future of PDP.
