Umahi Shuts Down ex-gov’s hotel for refusal to defect – Group

Umahi Shuts Down ex-gov's hotel for refusal to defect - Group

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Umahi Shuts Down ex-gov's hotel for refusal to defect - Group.
A group in Ebonyi State accuses Governor David Umahi of spearheading the shutting down of a hotel owned by the first Executive Governor of Ebonyi State, Sam Egwu in a bid to tarnish the image of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Umahi Shuts Down ex-gov’s hotel for refusal to defect – Group.

A group in Ebonyi State accuses Governor David Umahi of spearheading the shutting down of a hotel owned by the first Executive Governor of Ebonyi State, Sam Egwu in a bid to tarnish the image of the Peoples Democratic Party.

The hotel of ex-governor and first executive governor of Ebonyi State Dr Sam Egwu located at Nna Street Abakaliki, Ebonyi State was on Monday Shut down for allegedly harbouring drug traffickers.

A group known as Ebonyi State New Media Practitioners Forum has in the light of the foregoing accused the governor of Ebonyi State Dave Umahi of being behind the shut down of Grace Court Hotel owned by Dr Sam Egwu, an ex-governor of the state.

Grace Court Hotel was shut down on Monday the 15th day of March by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency after the hotel was said to have harboured drug traffickers. The group’s Public Relation Officer Nwede Martins in a statement on Friday said per Punchng report that;

“The Ebonyi State New Media Practitioners Forum has received with shock the news of the shutting down of the Grace Court Hotel at Nna Street Abakaliki, owned by the first executive governor of Ebonyi North Zone, His Excellency, Sen. Dr Sam Egwu by the Ebonyi State Government through a Surrogate government agency on the excuse that the hotel harboured drug users”.

“Though allegedly sealed from the use by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, we are aware of the plot by the Ebonyi State Government under the superintendence of Gov. David Umahi to plant implicating objects on properties owned by the People’s Democratic Party’s stakeholders in the state and use same as a subterfuge to clamp down on such properties.”

“This is in tandem with the alarm raised by the recently elected National Vice Chairman of the PDP in South East, Chief Ali Odefa where he said that the Ebonyi State Government had perfected plans to plant implicating objects on his establishments in the state to seal them from use. We have come to the realisation that in order not to manifest such a sinister action on the properties of the zonal party helmsman, the government resorted to channelling the action on the Grace Court Hotel to spite the former governor whose track records remain unbeatable by any government in the state since he left office.”

The Ebonyi State Government through its Commissioner for Internal Security and Border Peace, Stanley Okoro-Emegha rebutted the allegations of the said group, branding them baseless and unfounded. He reiterated that it isn’t the job of the state government to run the NDLEA body and that NDLEA were only doing their legal duty.

Going further, he quoted prominent members of the state like Sen, Obinna Ogba who also owns a hotel in the state as well as other investments and yet none of these other investments has been shut down by either the State Government or NDLEA. The more reason why according to him, the allegations of the Ebonyi State New Media Practitioners Forum is baseless and unfounded.