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  • Gov Nwifuru breaks silence on suspending 25 commissioners for not attending daughter’s birthday party

    Gov Nwifuru breaks silence on suspending 25 commissioners for not attending daughter’s birthday party

    Francis Nwifuru, the Ebonyi State governor, has denied the reports alleging that he suspended some government officials for not attending his daughter’s birthday.

    TheNewsGuru.com(TNG) reports that the rumor, which spread on 𝕏 formerly Twitter, claimed that Nwifuru took action against 25 commissioners and several appointees because they failed to show up at a birthday party held for his child.

    However, speaking about the situation, Monday Uzor, Chief Press Secretary to the Ebonyi governor, revealed that the suspension had nothing to do with any birthday celebration.

    According to Uzor,  the officials were punished for failing to attend a major public function; a basic school sports competition organised by the Universal Basic Education Board (UBEC).

    Governor Nwifuru had asked his deputy, Patricia Obila, to represent him at the event and directed other senior officials to be present.

    Despite this instruction, many were absent, which led to disciplinary action.

    “The governor was away and had instructed his deputy to represent him at the grand finale of the Basic School Sports competition organised by the Universal Basic Education Board (UBEC). However, most of his commissioners and appointees failed to attend.

    “So, when the governor learnt about it, he had to take action, as this was not the first time it was happening.

    “And for that picture circulating, it is unrelated to the suspension. It was taken at a private event hosted by the governor in July”, Uzor said.

    The suspension will last one month, during which the affected officials will not receive salaries or be allowed to sign any official documents.

  • David Umahi’s aide, Uzo accused of beating Ebonyi musician to pulp over campaign song

    David Umahi’s aide, Uzo accused of beating Ebonyi musician to pulp over campaign song

    Machiavelli Uzo, an aide to the Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, has been accused of brutalizing one Kelvin Ibinabo, an artiste in the state, over a campaign song.

    Uzo, who is the Coordinator of Ohaozara Development Centre in the Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, alongside his loyalists, were said to have attacked the artiste on Saturday and locked him up in a dark room.

    Narrating his ordeal, Ibinabo said he was booked by the LGA Chairman, Mr Consider Ajah, to perform at the burial of his mother-in-law in the council.

    According to him, when it was nightfall, he ordered his crew to pack up.

    “It was at that point that the Ohaozara Development Centre Coordinator, Machiaveli Uzo, emerged from nowhere and ordered me to play the campaign song of the APC governorship candidate in Ebonyi State,” the victim added.

    Ibinabo said he declined the request because he was done with his performance and the event he was invited to was not a political event.

    He alleged that the coordinator threatened to attack him if he did not comply.

    “At that point, I had no choice and for the sake of peace, I picked up the microphone and started playing the song for him.

    “After about 20 minutes, I dropped the microphone; but Mr Uzo again ordered me to pick up the microphone and play until he was satisfied.

    “But I refused to sing and instead ordered my crew to pack up so we could leave the scene. At this point, the coordinator and his thugs descended on me, beating me with different weapons.

    “After beating me to almost a comatose state, they whisked me into a room in the compound and locked me up.

    “The police in Ohaozara later arrived, rescued me from the room and took me to the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, for treatment,” he added.

    The victim said the Ohaozara council chairman was not around when the incident happened.

    Uzo, however, denied attacking the musician, whom he described as a friend.

    He said he pleaded with the artiste to sing a song for him, which he agreed to.

    “After that, we went inside the house and were making merry but after some time, he (Ibinabo) said he wanted to go outside and check something.

    “The next thing I heard was a commotion with some people beating him and chasing him into the house. I was also surprised by the action of his attackers like others inside,” he added.

  • Umahi still in presidential race frame – Campaign Group

    The Governor Dave Umahi campaign organisation has debunked reports that he had stepped down from the presidential race.

    The campaign organisation made the clarification in a statement on Sunday.

    The organisation noted that Umahi, who is one of the aspirants seeking the APC presidential ticket remains solid in his aspiration.

    The statement was signed by Ebonyi State’s Commissioner for Information and State Orientation,  Orji Uchenna Orji.

    It noted that the news that Governor Umahi stepped down is fake and the handiwork of desperate and satanic politicians.

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    The statement read, “The attention of David Umahi Campaign Organisation has been drawn to a piece of circulating fake news propagated in media platforms purporting that the Presidential Hopeful and Governor of Ebonyi State, His Excellency Engr Chief David Nweze Umahi FNSE FNATE (Akubaraoha) has stepped down his Presidential Aspiration for His Excellency, Senator Ahmad Lawan, Senate President of Nigeria’s National Assembly.

    “Members of the public are enjoined to disregard the fake news as cheap blackmail and absolute falsehood by desperate politicians who are apprehensive of the acceptable political profile of the Governor of Ebonyi State and Presidential hopeful and whose track records have endeared him to the heart of the APC leadership.

    “Umahi never stepped down, but that  His Excellency Ahmad Lawan only returned a consultation visit previously accorded to him by  Governor Umahi and that both of them pledged to support each other in event of any of them emerging as the presidential candidate of APC.”

    TheNewsGuru.con reports that a statement from Ahmad Lawan’s media team, signed by Danladi Bako, had claimed Umahi restated his commitment to support Lawan’s quest to emerge as the APC presidential candidate at the primaries scheduled for tomorrow and Tuesday.

  • Insecurity in South-East, politically – motivated; Umahi says

    Insecurity in South-East, politically – motivated; Umahi says

    Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, has claimed that insecurity in the state and the South-East is politically-motivated.

    He stated this while appearing on Channels Television where he said insecurity worsened after he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Governor Umahi ruled out foreigners as the masterminds of insecurity in the geopolitical zone.

    The Governor argued that despite the poor security situation in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has performed excellently.

    ALSO READ: 2023: Ebonyi Gov, Umahi tells Buhari why South East should produce next president

    To him, had Buhari not become President, insecurity situation in the country would have been worse.

    He said the Federal Government’s handling of the nation’s security challenges is excellent.

    The Governor who is a frontline aspirant into the office of president in 2023 under the All Progressives Congress, said in terms of naming all the indices that are needed to improve on what Buhari has done, he can be scored highly.

    In his words; “If it is in infrastructure, security, economy, and uniting Nigerians, I think God has helped him to do very well in each and every one of them.

    “Nigerians are very tired of political promises. They want to see evidence of what you have done. I have evidence of what I have done and I believe that what I have done could be replicated at the national level.

    “The security situation in the country, I have always told people that if we didn’t have the kind of President we have that is very humane and not vindictive, nobody knows where Nigeria would have been by now.

    “So, he has helped us tremendously in the security of the South-East. This thing started as a joke and today it is quite a big issue.”

    On the insecurity in the South-East, Umahi said, “In my state, there was a time that the insecurity was highly politically-motivated and the targets were Imo State, APC, and Ebonyi State the moment I defected. We did not have this large scale of insecurity until I defected.”

    He continued, “Well, you see, the security situation in the country, as I have always told people, that if we did not have the kind of President that is very humane and not vindictive, nobody knows where Nigeria would have been by now,” the APC presidential aspirant said.

    “So, he [Buhari] has helped us tremendously in the security of the South East.

    “What I call bandits are people that are engaged in violence and our people, South East people; the youths, some of them are also in this category,” Umahi added.

    “When people tend to say the insecurity in the southeast is imported, I don’t buy that because I am a governor and get security reports. We have arrested a number of these people and it should be about five or ten per cent of the people outside the South East.

    “So, you cannot say when you have up to 90 per cent of our youths that are engaged in this thing and you say we are being infiltrated by others.”

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that while the administration came into power in a 2015 campaign filled with insecurity rhetoric and how it would end incessant bombings in many parts of the country, many other security challenges have emerged since 2015 when it took over power.

    Analysts believe that thee security situation has worsened with new ones emerging on a regular basis in all parts of Nigeria.