Chairman of the South East Governors Forum and Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, at the weekend said he feels so ashamed that youths are razing police stations in the south east region to say that the region is at war.
Umahi made this known while receiving the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) in charge of South East zone, Joseph Egbunike, who paid him an official visit at the old Government House, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital.
He equally charged security agents in the state to protect themselves from attacks of armed men who attack them.
“I charge security agents to engage anyone who attacks them as it is stupid for you to be holding a gun and someone will kill and snatch your gun.”
Last time I checked, Nigerian governors have up to 12 different forums dedicated ostensibly to pursue governance and public affairs issues but which in actual fact are solely to achieve their own personal and collective aims.
Whereas the classical definition of democracy in rough and ready use is “Government of the people, for the people and by the people’’, for all practical purposes in our own experience in Nigeria we might as well defined it as ‘’Government of the Governors, for the Governors and by the Governors’’.
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This much has come to view against the immediate background of recent high profile meetings held by the Southern Governors Forum in Asaba the Delta state capital in which several issues like open grazing and restructuring of the country were discussed and decided, and the Nigerian Governors Forum where the Governors gratuitously decided without consultations with other stakeholders, the price at which petrol should sell in the country.
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State
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Fri May 21 2021
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State yesterday said it will be a dangerous game not to hold elections in the South East geo-political zone in 2023 because of the current burning of offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the region.
Umahi, who is Chairman of the South East Governors Forum, said this while featuring on the press briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team at the State House in Abuja.
The governor noted that some of the youths had been indoctrinated by the activities of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) which opposed the conduct of elections in the zone in 2023.