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

According to the Enugu State chapter of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dave Umahi, the minister of works, is giving President Bola Tinubu false hope that the South East zone will support his reelection campaign.

In a press statement issued by Comrade Adolphus Ude, the National Coordinator of ADC Like-Minds, on Monday, the party pushed Umahi to provide specific examples of the changes that have occurred in the South East since Tinubu assumed office.

In response to Umahi’s declaration that the South-East geopolitical zone will mobilize 90% of the vote in favor of Tinubu winning the February 20, 2027, presidential election, the party was acting.

But instead of telling the president the truth, Umahi was lying to him, and the ADC was furious.

The announcement says, “The South-East geopolitical zone will mobilize 90 percent support for President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the February 20, 2027 presidential election. This has caught the attention of Enugu ADC,” according to a statement made by Works Minister Dave Umahi. Umahi made a number of unguarded remarks, including the statement that the South East had not yet produced the president. “Failing to support Tinubu would be detrimental to the region,” he added.

Since we are aware that Umahi’s specialty is sycophancy, we are unsurprised and unconcerned by his statements. The other day, he publicly stated that he had accumulated more wealth in less than three years as a Minister than he had throughout his eight years as Governor. We have no remorse for him.

In fact, we suppose that he assumed he could mortgage 90 percent of the South-East votes to his principal in 2027 on his own, perhaps due to his joy about the money he has gained as a minister. The president is at his own risk if he takes the counsel of a money-hungry person too seriously.

Since Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, and other prominent Igbo political personalities recently switched to the ADC, the South-East has turned into an area that the APC avoids. Just like the Labour Party controlled the South-East polls in 2023, the ADC will do the same in 2027.

The South East zone is overwhelmingly supporting Mr. President’s reelection, which Umahi is giving him false optimism for. A fool’s paradise awaits Tinubu if he follows his minister’s advice.

However, Enugu ADC pointed out that Tinubu received less than 10 percent of the vote in 2023 and lost badly in each of the five South East states—Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo.

Despite Dave Umahi’s bluster as the governor of Ebonyi State at the time, the party claims that Tinubu was unable to secure even 13 percent of the state’s votes in the most recent presidential election.

Nothing has occurred under the Tinubu administration, it insisted, to ensure that the ruling party in the South-East gets a favorable outcome in the upcoming 2027 elections.

After been egregiously left out of President Tinubu’s administration’s distribution of federal infrastructure, intervention funds, and appointments, the South-East, according to Enugu ADC, owes him nothing.