Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, presidential; aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), at the Government House, Abakaliki, boasted that he has all it takes to defeat former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections.
Governor Umahi, hosting the Nigerian Union of Journalists, (NUJ), and the Nigerian Union of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) leaders in the state, said that his pedigree and credentials place him above every other presidential aspirant in the APC, and will defeat Atiku in the presidential race of given the APC ticket.
The NUJ and NAWOJ were holding their quarterly Central Working Committee meetings in Ebonyi State.
Meanwhile, Umahi will be facing prominent presidential aspirants like Vice President Yemi Osinbajo SAN, APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, and others. Virtually all these aspirants belong to the legacy parties that formed the APC in 2014 while Governor Umahi migrated from the PDP to the APC recently.