A group, Movement for Abia Unity and Progress (MAUP) has called on Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe to stop dropping the name of President Goodluck Jonathan and PDP national chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu and tell the people of the state what he will do if elected governor in 2015 as well as what he has done with the almost eight years he has spent at the senate.
In a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Francis Eme and National Secretary, Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, respectively, the group  accused Senator Abaribe of claiming that he is the only governorship aspirants in Abia state that Jonathan and Muazu calls by name.
“We want to use this medium to call on Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe to stop dropping the name of President Jonathan and the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Muazu everywhere he goes to consult people about his ambition. He claims he is the only aspirant Jonathan and Muazu calls by name. He said it during his consultation with the people of Abia North in Ohafia, Abia Central in Umuahia and Abia South in Aba.
“Rather than dropping Jonathan and Muazu’s names, Senator Abaribe should tell Abia people why he wants to be governor in 2015 and what he has done with the almost eight years tenure at the senate.  We wish to remind our senator that the Aba — Ikot Ekpene federal highway among other roads which transverses his Abia South constituency have remained impassable for more than two years now. We wish he could attract President Jonathan’s attention to the sufferings of his Abia South people have been made to go through because eof bad roads.
“If Senator Abaribe claims Jonathan and Muazu calls him by name, let him translate that relationship with the President into the delivery of democracy dividends to his people. Abia people are wiser now and would not allow ‘election time’ politicians like Senator Abaribe to take them for a ride again.
“Since Senator Abaribe claims Jonathan and Muazu do not know and have not heard of the names of Senator Nkechi Nwaogu, Chief Emeka Wogu and others who are believed to be interested to emerge governor in 2015, we urge him to refrain from name dropping which has been his pastime, even in 2003 when he claimed that President Olusegun Obasanjo adopted him as candidate and leave Abia people to determine who governs them in 2015,†the statement read in part.
Pointblanknews.com gathered that Abaribe who serves as the senate spokesman had claimed during a consultative meeting with party faithful from the six LGAs of Abia South zone at Aba that he is the only Abia governorship aspirant that President Jonathan and Muazu knows by name; a claim which people understood to mean that he may have been endorsed by the duo.