Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has warned former Aviation minister, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, against using him as a Public Relations tool in his defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
Umahi gave the warning on Friday while appearing on a Channels Television programme.
Fani-Kayode who has just defected to the APC from the leading opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had claimed that he was instrumental to Umahi’s defection to APC.
But speaking on the television programme, Umahi debunked the former minister’s claim, saying that he was just engaging in a Public Relations stunt.
Warning that Fani-Kayode should withdraw the claim, he said it was quite insulting to him.
Umahi said he joined APC on his own volition and not as a result of any influence by Fani-Kayode.
His words: “I will not take it from Femi Fani-Kayode that he made me to join APC. It’s an insult to a big governor like me. I joined APC on my own to follow the path of our founding fathers like Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe who took the Eastern Region to the central government. I took my people back to the centre on my own and not by any Fani-Kayode”.
