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President Buhari Is My Personal Friend, Gov Umahi Of Ebonyi Confesses

“I wish to put it on record that the President, Muhammad Buhari, is my personal friend and a friend of the state (Ebonyi). I have much respect for the office of the president.”

A statement by Chief Emmanuel Igwe, who is the Chairman of Strategy Committee of Divine Mandate for Governor Umahi’s campaign organization, quoted the governor as saying that he had great respect for the president, and that he had promised to mobilize 2000 PDP members to come out and receive the president during his campaign stopover in Abakaliki, the state capital, this week.

“The governor wishes Buhari and his entourage a happy stay as APC Presidential Campaign Council visits Ebonyi on the 30th of January, 2019.”

Governor Umahi, who doubles as Chairman of South East Governors’ Forum, was also quoted as saying that he had been under pressure to support the re-election of “my president by APC bigwigs especially the party chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Chibuike Amaechi just to mention but a few who come under various guises that the APC has no interest in Ebonyi guber race.

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The statement said that the has been too magnanimous to the APC by donating the sum of five million naira to its gubernatorial candidate, Senator Sonni Ogbuoji to enable him print campaign posters “and promised to mobilize two thousand people that will welcome Mr President on the proposed campaign rally.”

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