From Victor Nwegede, Abakaliki
Governor David Umahi has expressed his readiness to participate in the rerun primary election of the All Progressives Congress, APC for the Ebonyi South Senatorial position.
Governor David Nweze Umahi of Ebonyi State.
"For the avoidance of doubt, Governor Umahi is ready for the Ebonyi South Senatorial APC to rerun elections set for Sunday, 31st July 2022 where he hopes to receive the nod of his party to stand in the 2023 elections as their candidate in that senatorial zone."
Umahi, Thursday stated this in a press release issued by his Special Assistant on Media and Strategy, Chooks Oko.
He was reacting to the recent letter addressed to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court Abuja, Mrs Agom Eze about the court procedure standing against his senatorial race.
The release hinted that "Mrs Ann Agom Eze is at it again."
It further read: The attention of Ebonyi state Governor has once again been drawn to the bizarre antics of Mrs Ann Agom Eze in her quest to keep deceiving the public and gain unmerited sympathy in a bogus attempt to fly the APC flag as the candidate for Ebonyi South Senatorial zone.
"While the society was still grappling with her perjury tantrums to a revered court of law, she is again employing primitive tactics and resorting to crude self-help in a bid to clinch a mandate she has no claim to, anyhow.
"In a most provocative and highly contemptuous letter addressed to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court Abuja, Mrs Agom Eze went hallucinating about an imaginary court procedure and how it will end raising disparaging insinuations against the governor in the process.
"The Governor would have ignored the letter and its puerile contents but for the fact that silence is thought to mean consent in our society.
"The general public is enjoined to disregard these deliberate concoctions and misleading rants from a woman who had sought to represent a people got rejected but is now bent on showing them the rough edges they would have gotten from her.
"For the avoidance of doubt, Governor Umahi is ready for the Ebonyi South Senatorial APC to rerun elections set for Sunday, 31st July 2022 where he hopes to receive the nod of his party to stand in the 2023 elections as their candidate in that senatorial zone.
"The general public, and the judiciary, in particular, are enjoined to disregard and ignore the veiled blackmail and an attempt to be a senatorial candidate by hook or crook instead of through known standards."
