BY AGNES NWORIE, ABAKALIKI
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has expressed his displeasure on the position of the Indigenous People of Biafra against the proposed visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to the state.
According to the governor, regardless of the stand of IPOB, the president would visit the state as scheduled.
Umahi spoke at the end of the year Thanksgiving Service held at the new Government House Centenary City, Abakaliki.
There were speculations that President Muhammadu Buhari would visit Ebonyi State last month to inaugurate some projects but the visit did not hold.
Umahi, however, stated that he would meet the President alongside other prominent leaders of the South-East to discuss on peace in the zone.
He said, “I saw where one misguided element said Mr President is not welcomed in Ebonyi. He is inconsequential and I want you to put it on social media. He is so inconsequential. I was in Paris and I told Mr President that the leaders of the South-East would want to visit him over the issue of peace in the region and appealed to him to postpone the visit till early next year.
“I didn’t want to tell our people because I was urging them to keep pushing our projects as if the President was going to come this year. I’m not sure up to three or four people knew this; so, I kept it to myself.
“Mr. President will come when we want him to come. That IPOB guy is an inconsequential human being. If he is serious, let him hit the wall and come to Ebonyi State and let him see if he would find feet to go back. Somebody will sit somewhere and be talking rubbish and they will be misleading our children to go and be killed; but, (he) will not be at the war front.
“Any of them that will talk rubbish about security in the South-East, should come and lead the war. I will also lead the war for Ebonyi State. And like David, we will always kill Goliath. When they talk rubbish, just ignore them. This land belongs to God.”
