David Umahi, governor of Ebonyi
state, says he asked 2,000 people to attend President Muhammadu Buhari’s
campaign rally in the state because he did not want the president to feel he
was not liked by the people of the state or the region.
According to Daily Sun, Umahi
said this shortly after the president’s departure.
He said not only did he allow the
APC to use the state’s stadium but he also renovated it and that if he had not
organised people, the stadium would have been empty.
“Now, the crowd you saw there at
the stadium, 2,000 of them, were from me because I know they (the APC) have
nobody,” he was quoted as saying.
“But for it not to seem like
Ebonyi people don’t love Mr. President, I had to make available 2,000 persons
to come and cheer the president.
“That is why if you check the
crowd, while they were castigating me unduly, the crowds were not clapping’,
the people were not happy. But for the respect they have for Mr. President,
they could have booed them. I had to do what I did because I’m not into extreme
politics; I’m into politics for development.”
The governor added that even
though he belonged to a different political party, “the support for Mr.
President as a governor, is what we are doing.”
“We are supporting him; that is
our support for him. We acknowledged publicly what he, Mr. President, is doing
for Ebonyi state; that is the support we are giving to him,” he said
“Morally and ethically, I am not
supposed to come out and start shouting while I’m still holding the ticket of
PDP and saying ‘vote APC president.’
“But there are many ways of
giving support, as the chairman of South East Governors Forum; we have given
Mr. President a very good landing opportunity in the South East and definitely
he will have more votes that he had the other time.”
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