Elechi tried to impeach me nine times, says Umahi, PDP guber candidate

THE Ebonyi state Deputy Governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the comi,   Chief Dave Umahi said he survived nine attempts by the governor , Chief Martin Elechi to impeach him.

  The governorship hopeful who spoke when he visited both the Ebonyi state chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Unwu Ekumenyi, an umbrella body for people of Abakaliki bloc to solicit for their support regretted that the governor has allegedly been going around trying to destroy his name.

  He noted that he served the governor “for seven and half years  and the governor never found me wanting .Why is it now  that I would want to sell the state?” he asked.

  His words “When I was the party chairman the governor asked me to help him in 2011 to be re-elected and that he will make me the deputy after which I will succeed him.

I did everything humanly possible for him to become governor . It was like a covenant between the governor and I but when it was time for him to support me, he turned around to say I was desperate, that I want to sell the state.

“I went to the governor, cried and knelt down to him like son to his father to allow me succeed him based on our agreement but he told me that he will not support me.”