2023: I will defeat Atiku before noon ― Umahi

Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi has boasted that he will defeat the former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in the forthcoming general election if the All Progressives Congress (APC) gives him ticket.

Umahi made this known in Abakaliki, while addressing Central Working Committee (CWC) of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and that of Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) who were in the state for their quarterly meeting.

He then called on Nigerians to look into the credentials, performances, capabilities and experience of all those angling to be president next year, insisting that only the best is good for the country at the moment.

He, however, charged them to allow the South-East to produce the next president for justice equity and fairness.

According to him, South-East cannot be ruled out in the area issue of equity, fairness and justice for the presidential position of the country.

He then urged Nigerians to support the region to produce the president of the country in 2023 even as he challenged journalists to project only good materials for the people to make their choices in the general election.

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He, however, called on the electorate to reject moneybag politicians and the actors.

Umahi said: “My heart bleeds for this country to be very frank because in this quest to be the candidates of various parties. I got exposed to the nakedness of this country and the insincerity of this country and I saw a people that are driven by money. The measure of how strong you are is driven by how much you have and I began to ask question, where did all these monies come from? Which of us has companies before? Which of us has N100million before?

“When we talk about capacities and qualities of who can take this country to the next level and I said look, it comes to the issue of equity, fairness and justice, you cannot rule out south-east and you began to say who are the people that are capable to rule this country? And I said okay, let us leave out the issue of fairness, equity and justice.

“There is what called gratification infraction ratio and that is the all you have gotten, public funds over the time tables you have delivered. Lets see how you were and I see some of very insincere. You have put in nothing and yet you are deceiving Nigerians and I thought that by now, Nigerians should be tired of promises”.