No power can stop Tinubu’s Presidency, says Umahi

From Chinedu Nwafor, Abakaliki

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi state has said that nobody can stop the swearing-in of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Umahi spoke in his office, on Tuesday, when the Speaker of Ebonyi State House of Assembly and Governor-elect, Francis Nwifuru, visited him to present his INEC Certificate of Return and appreciate the Governor for his support which gave him and the All Progressives Congress victory at the recently concluded governorship and State Assembly polls.

He also called for an end to extreme and bitter politics adding that Tinubu’s victory was divinely ordained by God

Umahi said: “There is no power or force that will remove Tinubu from being the President, because the time God would have stopped him, God allowed him.

“Because God allowed him, no man can stop him. And this extreme politics should be deemphasized in Nigeria so we can move forward, in a better Nigeria.”

Governor Umahi dedicated the victory of the All Progressives Congress in the State and across the country to God and maintained that those seeking to upturn the victories at the tribunal were simply wasting their time and resources.

He insisted that the Party merited the victory that it got at the polls.

Umahi praised the qualities and character of Nwifuru, stressing that his election was built upon the platform of equity, peace and love in Ebonyi State and nurtured by all men of good will.

He maintained that should the election be held again, the APC will still carry the day.

“When people say they are going to Court or going to tribunal, I will just laugh.

“The PDP got the little number they got in our State because the election became local in the sense that they had House of Assembly members from the various localities that were  making efforts to also win.

“That’s why they got eighty thousand, against our One hundred and ninety-nine thousand votes; a clear difference of almost One hundred and twenty thousand,” he said.

Governor Umahi further urged the Ebonyi Governor-elect to consider for appointment into his team, younger generation, even as he made a case for increased number of women appointees in the coming administration, up to 50 percent.

Presenting the  Certificate of Return to the Governor, Nwifuru described the Governor as “the man that made all that happened to happen,”

He appreciated the Governor for standing strong for equity and justice in the State.

“Your Excellency, I am here this afternoon to present to you the Certificate of Return issued to me by the Independent National Electioral Commission on that fateful day made by the Lord, the 29th day of March, 2023, while you were away,” Nwifuru added.