2027: Ebonyi PDP guber candidate, Odii denies stepping down

The governorship campaigner of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, successful Ebonyi State, Chief Ifeanyi Chukwuma Odii, has dismissed insinuations successful immoderate quarters that helium has backed retired of the contest.

Odii said helium is successful the contention to triumph the predetermination and hitch retired hunger and poorness successful the authorities and volition not measurement down arsenic insinuated.

He stated this successful an interrogation with journalists astatine his Isu hometown, Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, connected Saturday night.

He declared that his enactment gave him the summons and that helium was contesting to connection a batch to the radical of the authorities who helium said are yearning for bully governance.

Odii described the connection by the Minister of Works, David Umahi, who said helium volition attack him to measurement down for Governor Francis Nwifuru, arsenic governmental manoeuvring.

“My party, the Peoples Democratic Party gave maine its mandate done consensus. That means they recovered maine suitable, but determination was a request for intervention. As such, I americium contesting to beryllium the politician of Ebonyi State due to the fact that I person a batch to connection successful government.

“On the contented of whether I would judge a petition to measurement down, I americium definite that is conscionable governmental manoeuvring. I don’t deliberation we person to undermine democracy. I judge each antheral knows what the constitu...