As 2027 Governorship election draws close Ebonyi South Youths Assembly on Sunday informed the People Democratic Party PDP Guber Candidate Chief Chukwuma Odii that he cannot march the popularity of Governor Francis Nwifuru saying that Nwifuru have performed credibly in delivery quality dividends of democracy which is hallmark of any responsive government.

They further told Odii that the political structures that brought Nwifuru to in 2023 have increased warning PDP Guber Candidate no amount of blackmail will change the mind of Ebonyi people from voting against Francis Nwifuru.

The Youths Assembly was reacting to comments by the acclaimed spokesperson PDP Guber Candidate Emma Igwe where he told Ebonyi people to vote for the PDP Guber Candidate in next year general election citing non performance and zoning formula as their reasons.

Igwe stated that Odii will repositioned the state in the area of workers welfare, agriculture, infrastructure, human employment and economy turnaround if elected.

But in a quick reaction the National President of Ebonyi South Youths Assembly Comrade Odii Njoku in a statement in Abakaliki said that they would have ignored the comments but for avoidance of doubt and to inform the people properly noting that Ebonyi people are more wiser now.

The Youths President noted that Odii himself knows that he can never be governor under this zoning arrangement stating zoning arrangement has shaped the state’s political evolution since its creation.

Even the PDP Guber Candidate knows that without zoning Sen. David Umahi couldn’t have become a governor if without zoning arrangement noting that Ebonyi alone cannot produce governor if there is no zoning arrangement.

“Ebonyi South was able to produced Sen. David Umahi as governor because of zoning and with Abakaliki bloc that have two Senatorial zones and eight Local Government Areas as against Ebonyi South that has one Senatorial zone and five Local Government Areas will always produce the governor if the zoning arrangement is altered” Odii said

“It is both misleading and historically inaccurate for him suggest that zoning has never played a significant role in Ebonyi politics. Since the creation of Ebonyi State, the governorship has rotated among the three senatorial zones, thereby promoting equity, fairness, inclusion and peaceful coexistence,” Njoku said.

“Chief Chukwuma Odii knows that he failed the 2023 Governorship election to the incumbent governor because of zoning and I wonder how he feels that 2027 will be different” Odii stated.

On economy turnaround if elected as governor, Odii told the PDP Guber Candidate to present a clear agenda of what he want to do and stop copying the development agenda of Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru ahead of the 2027 governorship election.

He noted that the opposition figure’s emphasis on human capital development, youth empowerment, skills acquisition, agriculture, technology, healthcare and economic transformation merely echoed programmes already being implemented by the Nwifuru administration.

“It is both ironic and shameful that the same Anyichuks, who has struggled to articulate a distinct vision for Ebonyi, has now resorted to echoing the very development philosophy and people-oriented programmes already being implemented by the administration of Governor Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru.
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He said the governorship of Ebonyi State remained subject to the constitutional electoral process and the decision of the electorate, adding that candidates must demonstrate broader political acceptability beyond their immediate political constituencies.