June 16, 2026
By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: The Association of Ebonyi Indigenes Socio-Cultural in the Diaspora AEISCID has condemned what it described as a resort to threats and violence against opposition by state officials calling on President Bola Tinubu to call his party’s loyalists to order.
The group’s President, Ambassador Paschal Oluchukwu, in statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, also threw said the group has now thrown its full weight behind the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party PDP for the 2027 governorship election in Ebonyi State, while accusing Governor Francis Nwifuru of deceiving the Ezza clan with a false promise of a 2031 power handover in a bid to garner support for his second term bid.
“We condemn the resort to threats and violence on opposition by Gov. Nwifuru made during his speech at a recent rally for the endorsement of himself and the President for a second term in office at the Abakaliki Township Stadium. We beckon on President Tinubu to please call his Party’s loyalist to order as our people cannot be cowed by threats of violence. Democracy grants everyone the right and freedom to contest for his position and under no circumstances should the people face threats for exercising their franchise,” the statement read.
