Ebonyi State Governor, David
Umahi has opened up on the speculation that he may contest for the presidency
in 2023.
The Governor said that he has no
plan of continuing in politics after his eight years as Governor.
The Governor also said that the
only way the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) can shame him for leaving the party
is by zoning the 2023 presidential ticket to the South East.
He called on his former party to
put an end to the attack on his person, saying there was no basis for it.
Umahi spoke when the Senate Chief
Whip, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, hosted him to a dinner in Abuja.
“I will advise them to stop the
attack on me, on my person. They don’t really have anything on me. They don’t,”
he said.
“The founding father of PDP is
Dr. Alex Ekueme, former vice president…I believe strongly that the PDP will do
the needful by putting me to shame by ceding the presidential ticket to the
South East.
“And this is just my aim. I never
said give it to me. There are many, many Igbo leaders who are much, much better
than me and more qualified. But as their younger one, we should watch their
back.
“When people speculate that I am
coming to do this and do that, I just laugh because I continue to say that
2023, by God’s special grace, I would have been a governor for eight years and
that is enough for me and I would have to bow out to face my business.
“So, those who are already
speculating are wasting their time. Every man has got his destiny and then, a
charter of life,” he said.
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