Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers
Association of Nigeria, on Wednesday, asked Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi,
to perish his dream of becoming Nigeria’s next President.
According to the group, Umahi had in the last six years as
governor repressed press freedom and arrested journalists for reporting factual
but negative developments in Ebonyi.
National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, made this
known in a statement titled, ‘HURIWA to Umahi: You lack the temperament to be
Nigeria’s President’.
Umahi visited the
President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday in Aso Rock and
informed him of his decision to run for President in 2023.
But reacting, HURIWA said Umahi has demonstrated a
“dictatorial” disposition against the press and should “perish his dreams of
becoming President of Nigeria or to resign as governor to enable his deputy
complete his remaining one year in office”.
HURIWA said Umahi recently banned two journalists (Chijioke
Agwu of Sun Newspaper and Peter Okutu of Vanguard Newspaper) from the
Government House. The group also said the governor ordered the arrest of the
two reporters over their reports on the Lassa Fever outbreak in the state and
the alleged military invasion of Umuogodoakpu-Ngbo community in the state.
The group, therefore, described the presidential ambition of
Umahi as a “pipe dream which must never be allowed to materialize into the
worst nightmares for Nigerians”.
Umahi defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All
Progressives Congress in November 2020.
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