Umahi, Lawmaker Trade Words Over Threat To Life

War of words has continued to rage between Governor David Umahi and the. State federal lawmakers since his decampment to the All Progressives Peoples Congress ,APC .
The Chairman , Senate Committee on Sports and Youth Development, Senator Obinna Ogba (PDP Ebonyi Central)  alleged  in Abuja that the state Governor, Engr. David Umahi was after his life going by series of threats received from him recently and vindictive actions being taken against him and his political associates
Briefing journalists in Abuja, Senator Ogba alleged that since Governor Umahi defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC without vibrant politicians in the state following him, he has resorted to vindictiveness against them.
The lawmaker in his written speech, titled: “Unfortunate and Delusional  Accusations by Governor Dave Umahi”, said the governor recently ordered for closure of a private school in Abakaliki owned by his legislative aide on trump-up allegation of cultists running it.
He also alleged that the governor is making moves to demolish his hotel in Abakaliki, the state capital for no justifiable reason.
“Specifically, when Umahi accused me and three others of engaging cultists and, according to him, some IPOB members to start killing and instigating crises in Ebonyi State, he thus brings the matter into the central realm of criminal law.
“Whether he is ignorant of the crime of joint enterprise to commit an unlawful or harmful act or not, Umahi must put forward the compelling evidence at his disposal that led him to lay such grievous allegations against innocent citizens who were his conveyor belts to his present status as a 2nd term Executive Governor of Ebonyi State,” he stressed.
The lawmaker said he had “never harboured, recruited, induced or engaged cultists for any purpose whether political or otherwise, in all my personal and public life.”
Senator Ogba recalled that “the governor and his brother, Austin Umahi sent him threat messages on the 14th of January and 16th of August respectively, warning me to watch my back.”
“Later, the governor called me and said  he would demolish my hotel at Dr. Offia Nwali Street, Abakaliki.  Therefore, when a man with such a history, combined with his insatiable greed to cling unto power makes these sorts of dangerous and thoughtless utterances, then, he must be taken seriously,” he said.
Senator Ogba therefore warned that should anything happen to him or any member of his  family, Governor Umahi should be held responsible.
But Governor Umahi in his reaction to his allegations, through a statenent signed by Orji,  denied  all the allegations and said the Senator was crying foul over non- existent and imaginative allegations.

By: Nneka Amaechi-Nnadi, Abuja