Umahi: Patience Jonathan, Not Anyim Made Me Gov

Dave Umahi has dismissed claims that the state’s political leaders led by Senator Anyim Pius Anyim and former Governor Sam Egwu contributed to his 2015 governorship struggles saying that he owed his election to former First Lady Patience Jonathan.

Speaking to All Progressives Congress, APC stakeholders in Abakaliki, the state capital, Umahi said that on the contrary that he was the one who helped Egwu get a Senate ticket and helped to fix many of the contemporary political leaders of the state who rejected his entreaty to defect to the APC.

GWG recalls that Umahi as deputy governor was politically empowered over Governor Martins Elechi who was forced to take habitation in the APC.

Renouncing the role of Anyim and others in his political ascendancy, Umahi said:

“They said he (Anyim) made me. Made who? When Senator Anyim went to the wife of Jonathan. Jonathan’s wife told him that she wanted me to be governor and he told her that I will disappoint her, that she should not. But Jonathan’s wife told him (Anyim), “No way, go and support him.” That was how the support came.”

Also observing that he did not get the support of the penultimate governor of the state, Senator Egwu, he said:

“Dr Sam Egwu never supported me from the beginning. It was his wife that supported me from the beginning, and we had to lure him into the fight by giving him senatorial ticket.”

The governor also revealed that he was the one who helped to ensure that Egwu and Senator Obinna Ogba landed safely in the Senate but that the two men joined others to rebel against him by refusing to defect to the APC.

According to him, “one small boy from Izzi, Ojemba, was going to disgrace Dr Sam, I knelt down for Izzi people; went from house to house. I had to go to Abuja against the will of God and disqualified the boy. I did that.”

“Hon Ugo Chima left me because I said he must not contest against Senator Ogba. I made Professor Odoh, who didn’t vote for me Secretary to Government, the first appointment of my administration, so that he will not take Ogba to Court in 2015. I also begged Ucha not to take Ogba to court after 2019 general elections, and he agreed. So, I have nothing against them. I know how to pray a prayer of justification.”

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