{"id":107679,"date":"2023-09-10T00:10:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T23:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=107679"},"modified":"2023-09-10T00:10:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T23:10:56","slug":"i-have-right-to-choose-my-replacement-at-senate-umahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/i-have-right-to-choose-my-replacement-at-senate-umahi\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Right To Choose My Replacement At Senate \u2013 Umahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has declared that he has the right to decide his replacement as the senator representing Ebonyi South district under the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>Umahi left the Senate after being appointed the country\u2019s minister of works by President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Sept. 8 ruled that Umahi was the district\u2019s validly elected senator after dismissing petitions from the Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Umahi declared that he had the right to determine his replacement on Saturday during his visit to Gov. Francis Nwifuru, as part of his tour of the state to inspect federal roads.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he is a prominent stakeholder of the APC as only the governor ranks above him in the party in Ebonyi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would ensure that the party\u2019s zones the ticket to Ohaozara (his Local Government Area) and it will not leave there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would discuss the issue with the governor and through him, run through the court process pending where the opposition takes us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister thanked the governor for supporting his moves to make Chief Onyekachi Nwebonyi (APC-Ebonyi Central) replace him as the Senate deputy majority leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked if you could facilitate the process, you did and it is currently working.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not every governor that would want his subject to grow but I want to assure you of complete comfort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Tinubu does not like division and be assured that you are not struggling for the party\u2019s leadership with anyone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Umahi noted that his decision to decamp to the APC from the PDP has yielded fruits with the projection of the state in mainstream politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat decision nearly took my life, my properties were burnt and I became the enemy of the entire Igbos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision fetched all of us our present position so support the governor to deepen the party in the state and southeast zone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He declared that President Tinubu was ordained by God to lead the country, noting that he had maintained that stance since the electioneering period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urge the Labour Party Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, and other Igbo stakeholders, to support Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president gave us the foremost ministerial position even when we didn\u2019t vote well for him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has declared that he has the right to decide his replacement as the senator representing Ebonyi South district under the All Progressives Congress (APC).&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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