Plot to sabotage Enugu gov-elect’s mandate underway, group alleges

The Citizens Arise for Democracy has alleged that there are plans to use the judiciary to sabotage the mandate of Enugu State Governor-elect, Peter Mbah.

The group claimed that a South-East governor and some top National Youth Service Corps officials are allegedly behind the plot.

CAD, which raised this alarm at a press conference in Abuja, said the plan was to use �the backdoor to impose a governor� against the people’s will.

Speaking at the press conference, the group’s convener, Okwa Dan, said the plot was a well-thought strategy to expand the governor’s influence in the South-East.

The move, he claimed, would subsequently allow the said governor to assert himself as the de-facto leader of the All Progressive Congress in the region.

Dan noted that the move is the second phase of the detractor’s plan.

According to him, NYSC has been compromised.

“We are concerned that a governor will export this criminality to the national level if allowed to get away with this usurpation of public office. Nigerians must think of the implication of using senior officials of the NYSC to steal public mandates. It means the nation will one day get to the point where votes would no longer count because some criminal-minded people have perfected how to abuse government institutions for hijacking power,” Dan said.

He, therefore urged the people of Enugu State to be “vigilant to curtail the shenanigans of Uzodinma and his associates”, calling on them to “rise to the occasion and reject this attempt to colonise their state. ”

The group, however, appealed to the APC to caution one of its governors bent on growing into a geo-political leader of the party.