The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has accused the Governor of Ebonyi state, David Umahi, of planning to assassinate several Political leaders and members of the party in the wake of his defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
This was contained in a statement made by Chief Ali Odefa, the national vice chairman of the PDP in Enugu.
He said it was worrisome that a “Governor of a state who is supposedly the Chief Security Officer of the state will blatantly threaten that “lives” of citizens of his own state “will be lost,” even when there is no aggression to suggest a war in the state.
Odefa said the alarm raised by Governor Umahi “is totally baseless as there is no political crisis in Ebonyi state, there is no immediate election contest in Ebonyi state, in fact, there is no situation that warrants the kind of threat he issued in Ebonyi State.
He alleged that “to buttress Umahi’s grand plan to unleash terror on PDP supporters in Ebonyi State,” a member of the PDP, Chinedu Nwode and his fiancée were shot at and killed, execution style, by a top government official for refusing to shout “APC” at an event in his Oriuzor community in Ezza North local government of the state.