The Story Of Ebonyi State Community Without Electricity For Years And Final Fallout Between Governor Nwifuru And Minister Umahi Over Reps Ticket

<h4>The Story Of Ebonyi State Community Without Electricity For Years And Final Fallout Between Governor Nwifuru And Minister Umahi Over Reps Ticket<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that former governor Dave Umahi who currently serves as Works Minister and his successor&comma; governor Francis Nwifuru&comma; have fallen out even though the cracks are yet to be openly acknowledged&period; Unlike Wike&comma; Dave Umahi is more strategic and careful with political battles unlike Wike&comma; which is why many believe the situation has remained under wraps for now&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The situation is so messy that from all indications&comma; governor Nwifuru may not be re elected&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The entire story centres around Barrister Joseph Ekumankama&period; He&&num;8217&semi;s from Edda &lpar;former Afikpo South LGA&rpar; of Ebonyi State&period; He was minister of state for health&period; He&&num;8217&semi;s an apostle of Engr David Umahi&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the on going All Progressives Congress&comma; APC primaries&comma; Ekumankama was surprisingly returned as House of Representatives candidate of the APC for Afikpo&sol;Edda federal constituency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The incumbent House of Representatives member&comma; Rt Hon&period; Barr Idu Igariwe who won his first&comma; second &amp&semi; third tenures on the platform of PDP decamped to APC for his 4th tenure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The governor of Ebonyi State gave him a consensus endorsement but yesterday&comma; a report from the APC National Working Committee declared him not cleared to contest the primary&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The APC committee that conducted the House of Representatives primary election in Ebonyi yesterday declared the Umahi candidate&comma; Ekumankama winner&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Ebonyi Governor immediately sent his three commissioners to go conduct a parallel primary and declare Idu Igariwe winner&period; On the published report by the committee from Abuja&comma; Ekumankama was announced winner of the primary&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So&comma; Barr Idu Igariwe has lost his 4th term ambition as the amended electoral act doesn&&num;8217&semi;t permit an option of another political party for him to contest on&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s the news&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The governor projected him as the next Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives before the game cut&period; He was to be used by the governor to end David Umahi&&num;8217&semi;s reign in the state as they are both from <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">Ebonyi<&sol;a> South&period; Umahi said it&&num;8217&semi;d not happen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Idu Igariwe has performed creditably as a lawmaker&period; But if he had influenced the restoration of electricity to Afikpo LGA&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;d be a champion&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">Afikpo<&sol;a> LGA hasn&&num;8217&semi;t seen electricity for 24 years now&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&&num;8220&semi;Electricity ceased to exist there for 24 years now&period; Afikpo is the second A-list urban settlement in Ebonyi&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s unfortunate such a city and indeed the entire LGA hasn&&num;8217&semi;t seen electricity for 24 years now&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s very bad&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m sure that if Afikpo Chic &lpar;Maria Ude Nwachi&rpar; is elected to the Senate&comma; she&&num;8217&semi;ll do everything possible to solve it&comma;<&sol;strong><&sol;em> says  Nwoba Chika Nwoba<&sol;p>&NewLine;