The Association of Ebonyi Indigenes Socio-Cultural in the Diaspora, AEISCID, has told President Bola Tinubu that his Minister of Works, David Umahi, cannot deliver the South-East for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2027 general election.
The Ebonyi indigenes, while noting that Umahi lacks the capacity to accomplish such a huge task, also expressed dismay over what they described as Umahi’s downright denial of marginalization of the South-East geopolitical zone.
DAILY POST reports that Umahi had in an interview for an upcoming State House documentary marking Tinubu’s second anniversary, boasted that all the South-East governors are supporting Tinubu for a second term, regardless of their current political affiliations.
In a statement issued Thursday in Abuja, President of AEISCID, Pascal Oluchukwu, regretted that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu was still being tried by the Tinubu-led government despite genuine calls that he should be granted a state pardon.
“People of the region are yet to see any vehement commitment from leaders like Umahi to use their influences to persuade the Tinubu administration to fix the real issues affecting our people.
“A good case in point is the aloofness of leaders like Umahi and indeed, the South East Governors in addressing the challenges faced by JAMB candidates in the entire region which all seem to every reasonable mind to be targeted at the people of the region.
“Ordinarily, if Umahi had the interest of the South East at heart, he should have been addressing this growing concerns on behalf of Ndigbo,”;; he added.
According to the group, despite Umahi’s claims, the South-East is still plagued by critical infrastructural challenges, including deplorable road networks.
“We are aware that as a man insipidly desperate to impress his paymasters, Umahi is only interested in recouping gains and lots to be shared between him and his paymasters and not sincerely interested in actualizing the many bogus projects the administration has embarked upon such as the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway among others.
“To further drive home our point on the high level of deceit ongoing in the guise of ‘ambitious projects’ by the Tinubu-led government using Umahi as a conduit executioner, no existing road infrastructure in the South East region has been completed in nearly two years- from Enugu to Port Harcourt, Enugu-Onitsha, Onitsha-Owerri, Enugu to Abakaliki or Afikpo to Okigwe highways. It is visible to even the blind that works have been ongoing on some of the roads awarded for nearly two years, leaving road users with struggles to use only a section of these roads,”;; the group added.
