Congresses: Umahi directs Police to seal off Salt Lake Hotels
...He is a day dreamer, Ebonyi PDP chair
By David Uka
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has directed security agencies to seal-off Salt Lake Hotels Abakaliki ahead of today's state Congresses of both PDP and APC in the State
The hotel which is owned by a PDP chieftain and Senator representing Ebonyi central zone Chief Obinna Ogba is the temporary Secretariat of Ebonyi PDP
Umahi who gave the order during a stakeholders meeting of the APC, at the Ecumenical Centre Abakaliki,
alleged that a disloyal member of the All Progressives Congress in the state, one Kenneth Nwakparata, was planning to hold a parallel State Congress of the APC, at the hotel premises, today.
According to the governor, no form of activity, either political or economical must take place at the hotel, today.
While declaring the Nwakparata wanted, Umahi pledged N500,000.00 bounty to anybody who had information about him.
Umahi said, "I can't remember his name they said is Kenneth Nwakparata and that he wants to conduct parrrel Congress tomorrow and where he wants to conduct the Congress is Salt Lake Hotel, at Obinna Ogba's hotel.
"That letter he wrote is a fake news and I have declared him wanted. Anywhere you see him, bring him to the police and you will get N500.000.00
"I am cancelling any meeting there tomorrow. The place should be sealed-off. There shall be no meeting there and the CP must ensure nothing takes place there and that the entire place must be beefed up with security.
"But if you want to try, you try and go there and see what will happen. I am the Chief Security Officer of the state and it is my duty to maintain law and order....Ebonyi State is APC."
Reacting, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the PDP in the state, Elder Fred Udeogu, Umahi was daydreaming when he said he will seal-off the Salt Lake Hotel, saying there was no iota of truth in the allegation.
Udeogu said, "I state categorically that the information coming from Umahi is as useless as it is unimaginable. As far as I am concerned, the owner of this hotel is a bonafide member of the PDP.
"It is not easy for even an APC man to even come here to use this place for anything. The level of non-communication between PDP and APC is so diametric. Is been long the governor has been looking for how to seal a hotel that belongs to a Distinguished Senator.
"This is baseless and directionless issue. Umahi lacks focus, by saying he will seal the hotel. Let him come and seal it. We are waiting."
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