Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Senator Victor Umeh has on Monday called on Col. David Imuse (rtd) who, he said, claimed to be chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, to resign.
Umeh, a member of the 8th National Assembly representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, alleged in a statement that Imuse leveled unsubstantiated allegations against Edo State Governor and PDP gubernatorial candidate for the September 19 governorship election, Godwin Obaseki.
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“My attention has been drawn to a toxic text of a press conference addressed by one Rtd Col David Imuse, said to be the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State.
Umeh said Imuse, in a recent press conference, made a lot of weighty allegations of a plot by Obaseki to rig the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State using INEC officials, coordinated by Barrister Mike Igini, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner.
“Ordinarily, I wouldn’t have bothered to join the fray, but I was constrained to do so after reading the direct allegations he made against Barrister Mike Igini who is unarguably one of Nigeria’s very principled and noble public officers.
“Rtd Col David Imuse in his poorly scripted immature text of press conference which was bereft of any safeguard and full of libelous paragraphs, attempted to blackmail the wrong person,” he said.
In his reaction, Imuse said he did not need to respond to Umeh’s comment because he (Umeh) is not from Edo State “and doesn’t have electoral value in Edo State in the forthcoming election.”
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