Senator Julius Ucha in trouble in Ebonyi race as Why Governor Elechi, Umahi Abuja meeting with President ends in deadlock exposed

If feelers from the Presidential villa, Abuja are anything to go by, the seeming peace of the grave yard in Ebonyi state may have assumed another dangerous dimension

as President Goodluck Jonathan allegedly failed to broker peace between the embattled Governor Martin Elechi and his deputy, Chief Dave Umahi.

The last night meeting between President Jonathan and Governor Martin Elechi was said to have ended in deadlock as  Governor Elechi insisted that all the candidates for the National Assembly on the platform of the Labour Party, LP shall be returned before  peace will reign in the state.

He was also quoted as insisting that his administration has spent huge sums of money in midwifing the project and demanded that before he could let go of the project, the candidate of PDP, Chief Dave Umahi must promise to pay him all the money he spent in constituting LP part machinery.

However, his instance and some other stringent conditions could not go down well with the National Chairman of PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mua’azu who allegedly threatened to suspend him from the party for alleged anti party activities.

A source at the meeting further revealed that the meeting was almost coming to a success when Governor Elechi allegedly stormed out of the meeting to answer a phone call suspected to have come from Abakaliki and after the call, he changed his statement and insisted that Labour Party is not his party and therefore has no powers to collapse the party into PDP.

He allegedly insisted that though the state apparatus including all the state machinery have been re-deployed into LP, he as a person has always shown commitment to PDP and has never dumped the party officially for LP and told Mr. President that the issue of LP being collapsed into PDP surpasses his powers as it is a pure constitutional matters.

The matter was however allegedly referred to Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo state to carry out survey and study possible way both PDP and LP can form an accord to be able to stop the hurricane APC governorship candidate, Senator Julius Ucha whom Mr. President allegedly kept mentioning through out the meeting.

It was gathered that second stage of the meeting was a sort of “operation stop Ucha” which arose when Chief Dave Umahi allegedly expressed concern that with the way things are going and LP playing spoilers’ game, they my not stop Ucha and urged Mr. President to prevail on Elechi to join forces with PDP and LP to be able to stop the APC man.

Meanwhile, the proposed visit by President Jonathan to Ebonyi state may have suffered a set back following the recent development in the state as security reports available to Aso Rock about the condition of the state are not favourable and may lead to clash between PDP and LP supporters.

The proposed visit may have been shifted to a later date to enable Mr. President consolidate on the peace building between Elechi and Umahi, the PDP and LP as anything short of that could spell doom in the state and further scuttle Mr. President’s chances of winning election in the state.

However, both Governor Elechi and Dave Umahi are being expected in the state this afternoon when the duo are to meet with their supporters to address them on the outcome of their trip to Abuja. Ends  

But as at the time of this report, Chief Elechi has not completely accepted the conditions given him by NWC of PDP as he insisted that LP is a political party of its own and cannot dabble into their affairs. Ends