Ebonyi's Governor Umahi claims APC want to assassinate him after IED is discovered at PDP HQ

GOVERNOR David Umahi of Ebonyi State has alleged that the opposition leaders in the state are plotting to assassinate him in order to take over control of government house in 2019.

Elected in 2015 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015, Governor Umahi is standing for re-election in February next year, seeking another four year term. Yesterday, however, he claimed that members of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) were trying to kill him so they could wrest the state from the PDP in next year's polls.

Governor Umahi summoned an emergency security meeting yesterday to discuss the issue following the discovery of an explosive device suspected to be an improvised explosive device (IED) at the PDP headquarters along the Abakaliki Enugu Expressway. Addressing newsmen after the security council meeting, the governor described the discovery of the IED as shocking and wondered why the opposition would be resorting to killing because of the inordinate quest for political power.

“All the available security briefs from the commissioner of police to other security chiefs in the state pointed to the desperation of some persons in the opposition party to cause mayhem in the state ahead of 2019 general elections. The police discovered bomb in our PDP secretariat and from all accounts, the information from the security briefs from the commissioner of police, the IED was a little bit odd showing that it must have been planted by the desperate opposition people in one of the days I was at the secretariat for a meeting but God did not allow the thing to detonate and God will never allow it to happen to us.

“Our suspects are the desperate opposition people who have become jobless and aggressive ahead of the 2019 general election because they think they can cease power by all means. I have directed the security chiefs to make full scale investigation into the incident and report to their various headquarters while we as government will report to Mr. President,” Governor Umahi added.