A 2023 Presidential Aspirant under the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, has on Sunday, boasted that he would easily defeat the Presidential Candidate of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, if he emerges as the 2023 Presidential Flagbearer of the APC for the general elections, .
He specifically said that he would defeat Atiku with his millions of winning votes before 12noon, on the day of the election.
Governor Umahi spoke when the national leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists and National Association of Women Journalists, paid him a courtesy visit at the new Presidential lodge, Government House, Abakaliki, on Sunday.
Umahi said he was not comfortable with the show of financial imprudence exhibited by the presidential aspirants of the PDP during their Party’s primary election in Abuja.
He said, “Assuming I was the President, I would have impounded those vehicles in Abuja. I weep for this country.”
The APC Presidential aspirant emphasised that he left PDP because the South-East was marginalised under it, adding that the achievements he had so far recorded under the APC administration remains unbeatable and indelible.
He called on Nigerians to cast their votes for leaders with enviable pedigree and antecedents, rather than those without the vision to transform the country.
On Biafra, Umahi insisted that Ebonyi State was not part and parcel of Biafra as Ebonyi had over the years suffered disenfranchisement and marginalisation in the hands of other South-Eastern States.
He applauded the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rted), for his enormous support to the growth and development of the state.
Umahi, who charged media practitioners to partner his administration in every sector, advised them to guide against any behaviour that is capable of putting the media community in a bad light.
Earlier, the National President of NUJ, Chris Ishiguzo assured the Governor of the cooperation of the media even as he commended Umahi for advancing the course of development in the state.