I have no rift with Minister of Science and Technology—  Gov. Umahi

Jacob Ogodo, Abakaliki

Contrary to speculation and misconception making rounds in meaningful quarters, Ebonyi state Governor, Chief Dave Umahi, yesterday said he has no rift with the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu.

There was a publication in one of the National Dailies that Umahi and Onu were at loggerheads which necessitated the Minister of State for Mines and Steel, Dr. Uche Ogah to boycott a federal government programme he was to perform in Uburu, Ohaozara local government area. Both Umahi and Onu are from Uburu.

The federal government programme could not hold last week Friday following a flight issues Ogah prompting the event to be rescheduled  Tuesday this week.

“I want to first  of all apologize for the incident  that happened last week Friday, it isn’t  intentional. I was disappointed  by an airline  from Abuja to Enugu,” he told Umahi yesterday when he paid a courtesy visit on him at the  new government House Abakaliki.

The Governor while receiving Ogah said, “Some people are very much interested with fake news, I never had any issues  with Dr Onu, not even for once. So why will one journalist write that I was having issues with him and then that the minister boycotted a function that never held.”