A social cultural group of concerned indigenes of Ebonyi state are
demanding that the Secretary to the Government of the Federation
(SGF), Engineer Babachir David Lawal, discloses how much of the
state’s money their governor gave him as cash gift, The Union reports.
This is coming after Lawal was reported to have disclosed during a
vote of thanks at a thanksgiving service held on October 17, in Abuja,
that Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state had made a gift of some cash
to him after he had initially refused plan by the governor to send him
some rice.
Part of his vote of thanks reads: “Another man who I just met
recently; the man who read the second verse, David Umahi ; what is
your second name; whether Umuahia or something like that; really since
the time we met, I don’t know why, our spirits locked on. And you see
that he has been good; he is somebody I know that when am in trouble I
can always run to him. This is a man I don’t know but he is PDP; he’s
Igbo but he sent a trailer load of rice to my governor for the IDPs in
Adamawa state recently. May be he did not want me to say it.