You Are Living In A Fool’s Paradise If You Take Umahi’s Words Seriously – ADC Warns Tinubu

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) Enugu State chapter has claimed that the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, is giving President Bola Tinubu false hope over the South East zone’s support for his re-election bid.

In a press release on Monday signed by the National Coordinator of ADC Like-Minds, Comrade Adolphus Ude, the party challenged Umahi to state in concrete terms what has changed in the South East since Tinubu took over office.

The party was reacting to a statement by Umahi that the South-East geo-political zone will rally 90 per cent support for Tinubu’s victory in the presidential election, slated for February 20, 2027.

However, the ADC fumed that Umahi was misleading the president rather than telling him the truth.

The statement reads, “The attention of Enugu ADC has been drawn to a statement by the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi that the South-East geo-political zone will rally 90 percent support for President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the February 20, 2027 presidential election. Among other unguarded utterances, Umahi also said it is not yet the turn of the South East to produce the President. He further warned that failing to support Tinubu would be detrimental to the region

“Truly, we are neither surprised nor perturbed by Umahi’s utterances because we know that sycophancy is his stock in trade. The other day, he openly declared that in less than three years as a Minister, he amassed more than what he made in eight years as Governor. We do not begrudge him.

“In fact, we believe that it is probably out of excitement of the money he has made as a Minister that made him think that he can single-handedly mortgage 90 percent of South-East votes to his principal in 2027. If the President takes the advice of someone intoxicated by money too seriously, it is at his own detriment.

“With the recent realignment of the 2023 presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi and other notable Igbo political figures with ADC, the South-East has become a ‘no go area’ for APC. In 2027, the polls in the South-East will be dominated by the ADC, the same way that the Labour Party dominated in 2023.

“Umahi is giving Mr. President false hope that the South East zone will massively support his re-election. Tinubu will be living in a fool’s paradise if he takes the words of his Minister.”

Continuing, Enugu ADC recalled that in 2023, Tinubu lost woefully in all the five South East states, namely Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo, scoring less than 10 percent of the total votes cast.

According to the party, even with all the bravado of Dave Umahi as the then-Governor of Ebonyi State, Tinubu could not get up to 13 percent of the votes in his state during the last presidential election.

It maintained that nothing has happened under the Tinubu administration to guarantee a turn of events for the ruling party in the South-East during the coming 2027 elections.

Enugu ADC insisted that the South-East owes President Tinubu nothing, having been grossly excluded by his administration in the allocation of federal infrastructure, intervention funds and appointments.