Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has openly acknowledged the
existence of moles in his government but insisted that his administration had
nothing to hide.
Umahi’s position is contained in a social media comment
posted on Sunday.
He was reacting to a post by a WhatsApp group participant
accusing the former Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Bernard Odoh, of
“unholy alliance with a particular incumbent governor of a South-Eastern
state”.
Umahi, who reiterated his earlier warning that government
appointees should not castigate another governor or other officials, urged his
critics to visit the Ebonyi government’s information website for information
they needed.
“Those who want to betray me will end up fighting the wind
as there is nothing to betray except, maybe, a display of ingratitude to God.
“Those who sit on the fence in defending their government
will definitely receive the same reward whenever they need defence from
government.
“Anyone who supports him (Odoh) or his betrayal will also get
betrayed especially at a time of his or her greatest need,” Umahi said.
Umahi, while challenging the moles in his government to send
his post to whoever they cared, described the said governor as his friend “even
before now”.
“Whenever someone becomes a governor, he is no more the
property of anyone else other than God and the people,” he said.
He enjoined his supporters to leave the said governor or the
ruling party at the federal level out of any accusation, insisting that Odo was
not in the mentioned state’s government house as alleged by the WhatsApp group
participant.
The Ebonyi government had been having a running battle with
the former SSG over the disbursement of the small and medium-scale agricultural
fund in 2016.
State government officials and Odoh’s supporters have
resorted to the social media to air their views and, in most cases, cast
aspersions on one another over the panel of inquiry set up by the government to
investigate the disbursement.
They have also traded accusations over the petition written
by Odo to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), urging the
anti-graft body to investigate the disbursements.
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