APC Supporters, Others Fight Dirty Over Umahi’s N50,000 Gift
Huge drama erupted on Wednesday at the All Progressives Congress’s Ebonyi secretariat when drivers, security personnel, and party members clashed over a cash present from State Governor Dave Umahi.
Two days after being screened by the John Odigie-led presidential screening committee in Abuja, Umahi made a quick trip at the Secretariat to see APC National Chairman Abdullahi Adamu.
After the over-an-hour closed-door meeting, Umahi brushed away journalists’ inquiries and walked to his car.
The governor turned and flung a bale of N50,000 crisp notes as he was about to enter.
Many APC members, security personnel, and drivers traded punches as they rushed to divide the loot.
Umahi was one of the 23 recently screened presidential aspirants who turned up at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja.
The other 22 aspirants included National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Tinubu; former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi; Senior Pastor of the Citadel Global Church, Tunde Bakare; former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba; Ebonyi Governor, Dave Umahi; Jigawa Governor, Mohammed Badaru; Senator Ajayi Borroffice; former Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun; former Senate President, Ken Nnamani and US-based Pastor, Nicholas Felix.
Others were Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President, Ahmad Lawan; former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio; former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole; Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, and Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade.
The remaining were oil magnate, Tein Jack Rich; Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti; former Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Ogbonnaya Onu; former Minister of Information under the late General Sani Abacha regime, Ikeobasi Mokelu and embattled former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha.
