By Adadainfo
Despite clarifications that Gov Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State did not ask the Nigeria Police to disperse the rally of supporters of Mr Peter Obi in Abakaliki, Labour Party’s vice-presidential candidate, Dr Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, has lashed the state governor.
The organizers were dispersed by police operatives using teargas, making some of them sustain injuries. Some reports claimed police arrested some of the ‘obedients’.
Chuks Oko, Umahi’s aide, earlier exonerated his principal.
However, Dr Datti Baba-Ahmed, in a tweet, described Umahi as ‘a coward’, adding that people of the state would never forgive him.
He tweeted, “Dave Umahi is a coward. The people of Ebonyi state will never forgive you for the evil you bestowed against them.”
Meanwhile, one Mazi Chukwujioke, via @jioje36, has advised Dr Ahmed to woo voters from his own region.
He wrote, “Mr. Yusuf, you cap a lot. I know you have time for Twitter and you’re the one managing your account, but just leave this opposition to do their (things) as it pleases them; just do your job; go out convincing the people, esp from your region.”
Gov Umahi is bitting more than he can chew. Imagine common peaceful rally which millions of Nigerian youths have embraced and demostrsted a rosd the country but one man in the name of a governor scunttled it in a state in Igboland. Well, let me reply him in the words of Woke Soyinka ‘Those who make peaceful change inevitable, cannot make violent change inevitable. Ka Chineke mezie okwu.