Victor Ezeja
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), a Civil rights advocacy group has called on the Ebonyi State Governor, Engr Dave Umahi to perish his dreams of becoming the President in 2023.
In a media statement issued by the HURIWA National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the media Director, Zainab Yusuf, the group asserted that governor Umahi lacks the temperament to be Nigeria’s president, and described him as one of the worst dictatorial civilian governors of modern day Nigeria.
Dismissing the public notice by Umahi to run for office of president of Nigeria as a pipe dream which must never be allowed to materialize into the worst nightmares for Nigerians, HURIWA described him as a tyrant who is known not to accept dissenting voices.
Join our WhatsApp Channel“If the bedrocks of democracy are the free exercise of fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Nigerian Constitution such as the freedom of expression, then unrepentant dictators like David Umahi should not go near the office of president or else the tyrannical regime of Uganda’s dictator Yoweiri Museveni would be a child’s play and Nigeria would return to a primitive era whereby MIGHT BECOMES RIGHT.
“David Umahi’s legendary intolerance of press freedoms and the freedom of political opponents to go about their legitimate businesses would mean that the oppressive regime of late General Sani Abacha would just be inconsequential compared to what Dave Umahi will do with the presidential powers just as he would collapse Nigeria into a one party state.
As President, Umahi will capture or jail his political opponents and will rule as he likes with no accountability or transparency. Nigeria must never be ruled by persons who are worst than the bad President we have had since 2015 for that would lead to disintegration,” HURIWA stated.
Umahi had in an interview with State House correspondents, disclosed that has told the president about his ambition to contest for the presidential seat if the party zones the ticket to the Southern region.
HURIWA quoted Umahi as saying: “We discussed politics as the growth of our party, APC, in Nigeria, and the South East. And, of course, you know, the interest of the South East, for the seat of presidency in 2023.”
HURIWA further quoted Umahi as saying, “And, of course, I told Mr President, that without prejudice to whatever will be the decision of the party, which we shall abide by, that if the party throws the ticket open or zones to Southern part of Nigeria that I believe that with what I have put in place in the past six years plus, that I will be running for presidency on the platform of the APC.”
Victor Ezeja is a passionate journalist with seven years of experience writing on economy, politics and energy. He holds a Master's degree in Mass Communication.
