The former commissioner for Information and Orientation in Ebonyi State,Mr Abia Onyike has opened up on why he has decided to return to the opposition People Democratic Party in Ebonyi State.
According to him,he wants to go back to the Peoples’ Democratic Party because the Governor, Mr Dave Umahi has failed the people of the state.He described Governor Umahi as a dictator, an autocratic leader whose concerned is to loot the state treasury.
Recall that the ex information commissioner fell out with his political benefactor,the governor. He was arrested for tax envans and non payment of tenement rate.
Abia made this revelation in a press release signed by him and made available to Journalists on Wednesday. The statement reads in part..
“After a critical review of the current political scenerio in Ebonyi State, especially since November. 19, 2020, when Gov. David Umahi decamped from PDP to APC, I, Abia Onyike have decided to return back to the People’s Democratic Party(PDP). My decision to return to PDP is based on the following reasons:
” That Gov. David Umahi is not prepared to turn a new leaf in his dictatorial, totalitarian and autocratic leadership style in the governance of Ebonyi state-a situation that has unleashed mass poverty and mass impoverishment on Ebonyi citizenry. In my own Afikpo South LGA, Gov. Umahi has failed the people through his continuous support and singular empowerment for a political block which operates the MoreCanBeDone killer-squad and hisfailure to set up a panel of inquiry to investigate recent killings in the area has made the political faction more impudent and virulent in the vicinity. Umahi’s government is far from being a democracy.
“It is a self-serving anarchist banditry”, apologies to Dr. Chidi Osuagwu who used the term to describe the excesses of anti-democratic charlatans in our midst.
“Gov. Umahi wants to continue in his usual government of anarchy. through which instability , violence and lawlessness are exacerbated in the governance of the state. As we speak, a new wave of killings and loss of lives is gradually unfolding in the state in Ezza North and Ezza South LGAs, no thanks to the regime of mpunity prevalent in the state. The political space is already fouled by antagonistic propaganda being fuelled and targeted against those wanting to toe a different and independent path of political party affiliation, especially those who have expressed their resolve to be in PDP.
“Gov. Umahi sees public office not as an instrument for the provision of welfare for the citizenry, but as a platform for personal and family agrandisement. He runs an anti-peoples government and has by so doing declared himself the enemy of the people. He is self-willed, self-opinionated, self-serving, self-centered and selfish”. The statement among others stated
