The Labour Party, LP Candidate for Abakaliki/Izzi Federal Constituency during the 2023 general elections, Dr Ezeh Emmanuel Ezeh, advised the Ebonyi State Governor, Francis Nwifuru, to focus on evidence-based governance rather than emotion, stressing that good governance is driven by data.
Ezeh, in a press statement made available to journalists on Tuesday in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, described All Progressives Congress, APC leaders as incompetent people without character who could only build evil and nothing more in the country.
He attributed the Nigerian socio-economic woes to the emergence of the APC in the 2015 general elections.
He was reacting to the recent awards bestowed on the immediate past Governor of Ebonyi State, now the Works Minister, Senator David Umahi by the Silverbird as the best performing Minister in President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet.
Ezeh, an Oxford-trained entrepreneur, congratulated Umahi for his outstanding performance, which earned him the award, saying the Minister’s political value can hardly go unnoticed in the 2027 polls both in Ebonyi State and the country at large.
The LP Chieftain expressed surprise that the few performers in the current administration came from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and maintained that the ruling APC had destroyed good legacies built by the PDP-led government after taking the mantle of leadership in 2015 till date.
His words: “Let me congratulate His Excellency Engr Senator Dave Nweze Umahi on this award as the best-performing Minister in Tinubu’s cabinet.
“Surprisingly, but worthy of note, the few performers in this administration all came from the PDP. APC is totally a party of incompetent people without character, with the capacity to build evil and nothing more. The reason they destroyed everything handed to them in 2015. Nigeria died in 2015 – Simple!
“Today in Ebonyi politics, Umahi holds all the four access. Don’t mind sycophants milking the governor to deceive you. He is strategic albeit in the negative. He saw the impotence of the older politicians and ran them out. He saw through their greed and hunger and their lack of character and took full advantage.
“In 2027, Umahi will still be a force to reckon with unless the current governor makes a sharp turn.
“Congratulations, Engr Dave. May this award refocus you to achieve more.
“You see – you can’t compare my brother Engr Dave Umahi to that loquacious Nyesom Wike. Dave operates from a position of strength and does not fight unprepared battles. If you place Dave in Wike’s position, he would have pretentiously crawled or rolled, if possible, to the religious leaders, kneeled for the governor, and made peace while sharpening his knife for the midnight kill. Dave is smart while Wike is abrasive!
“Let Wike take lessons from Dave Umahi before it is too late. As for those looking for Umahi’s trouble in Ebonyi, it will be unfortunate if Gov Nwifuru allows himself to be dragged into any conflict with his former boss.”