BY DAVE UKAZ / ABAKALIKI
Chairman of Southeast Governors’ Forum, Chief David Umahi of Ebonyi State, has said that no power can stop Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu from being inaugurated as Nigeria President on May 29, this year, saying his mandate is sacrosanct.
Umahi stated this on Tuesday while receiving Ebonyi State Governor-elect, Rt Hon. Francis Nwifuru at Government House, Abakaliki.
Nwifuru was in the Umahi’s office to present his Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Certificate of Return as well as appreciate him for the support he gave him and their party during the just concluded governorship polls.
Addressing journalists at the event, Governor Umahi dedicated the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State and across the country to God.
Umahi maintained that those wanting to upturn the victory at the Electoral Tribunal were simply wasting their time and resources, adding that APC merited all it got at the poll.
He advised those thinking they would rob Tinubu of his mandate to have a re-think, insisting that Tinubu can’t be stopped.
“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”, he said.
Turning to the Governor-Elect, Governor 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 noted that if the election is held again, APC would still carry the day.
His words: “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”
The governor urged the Governor-elect to consider younger generations for appointments into his team, adding that the youths should be given more opportunities to contribute their knowledge to governance.
He also made a case for an increased number of women appointees, up to 50 percent in coming administration.
Presenting the Certificate of Return to the Governor, Nwifuru described the Governor as “the man that made all that happened to happen,”
He commended 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 Electoral Commission on that fateful day made by the Lord, the 29th day of March, 2023, while you were away”
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