Enugu State Governor, David Umahi has countered the claims by Chief Femi Fani-Kayode that he was responsible for his defection from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC), noting that it was an insult to him.
Fani-Kayode, a former chieftain of PDP formally joined the APC yesterday and was presented to President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Rock Villa.
The former minister claimed that he was instrumental to the defection of Umahi, Ben Ayade of Cross River State, and Bello Matawalle of Zamfara to APC.
He maintained that Femi Fani-Kayode, remained his friend but making such claims was anything but spurious.
He wondered how a man who was in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would facilitate the exit of a governor to another party.
But Umahi denied it in an interview with Channels TV Sunrise Daily today.
Umahi said, “For someone to come and say that a whole Chairman of the Southeast Governors Forum, that he was instrumental to my movement from PDP to APC is an insult on my person, and with all due respect, he has to withdraw that statement.
“He remains my friend and a good one for that matter, but he played no role in my movement and I am sure he didn’t play any role in the movement of the rest of us.”
YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM RULERS’ WORLD
“We had some really good, quality time there,” Jeff Bezos said of traveling outside of Earth with his brother Mark.
Makinde reappoints, swears-in seven Commissioners in Oyo
Oyo State Governor, Engr Seyi Makinde, has on Friday reappointed and sworn in seven commissioners in the state.
SHOCKER: World Athletics Body sends 10 Nigeria athletes out of Olympics
As huge a number as 10 Nigerian Track and Field athletes have been sent packing from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics for not meeting the testing conditions of the Athletics Integrity Unit of the sport.
Pomp and ceremony as Iloko-Ijesa gets new Monarch
Iloko-Ijesa, a rustic town in Oriade Local Government Area of Osun State, came alive Saturday, 24 July 2021, as dignitaries in Nigeria and the Diaspora stormed the town to witness the coronation and presentation of staff and instruments of office to Oba Akeem Olusayo Ogungbangbe, Ajagbusi-Ekun VI, the new Owaloko of Iloko-Ijesa Kingdom.
Nigerians in Asia seek FG’s probe of maltreatment, harassment of citizens
A group, Stakeholders of Nigerians in Asia has called on President, Muhammadu Buhari to investigate the alleged continue maltreatment, inhuman and xenophobic attacks on Nigerians across the Asia continent.
Seven die of cholera outbreak in Enugu
No fewer than seven persons have died from a cholera outbreak at the new Artisan Market in Enugu metropolis, Enugu State.
