Umahi says Ebonyi will give 95% of its votes to Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election.

Minister of Works David Umahi said Ebonyi State will give 95 % of its votes to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the next general election.

He added that he would collaborate with Governor Francis Nwifuru to secure the large number of votes for the President.

Umahi made the comments while inspecting the ongoing construction of the Abaomoge/Akpoha/Afikpo road in the state.

The minister noted that no president can carry out the scale of projects Tinubu is implementing in Ebonyi and the wider South East, urging leaders in the region to support Tinubu’s re‑election.

Umahi, a former governor of Ebonyi, said the state would launch aggressive campaigns to reward the president for his work in the area.

“I use this opportunity to ask our leaders to come out and speak out, because we have shouted about marginalisation, but now we are not marginalised by the President,” he said.

“Let me tell you, there’s no other ministry in this administration that is as big as the Ministry of Works, and it’s being handled by an Igbo man, so what a trust, you know, and without the Ministry of Works being an Igbo man, maybe we have some projects, but it will not be this magnitude.”

“And so, I think that the President is very strategic, you know, in getting Southeast people to the mainstream of Nigerian politics, and so we have to be wise.”

“I have not even started shouting about the good things that the President is doing in the Southeast. I’m ready to engage anybody; let the person tell me who else would have done this, if not the President.”

“You see, in this Ebonyi, working with Governor Nwifuru, we will shock the nation, because we will deliver 95% of our votes to Tinubu; we have no reason to give it to any other person. Let the President tell us what he has done for the Ebonyi people, and we shall vote otherwise. The last general election was an accident of history, and it will not repeat itself.”

“We are going to mount a very serious campaign to let our people, the young ones, the elites know that this is our chance, this is our time, and if we strategically and constructively engage, then our time is coming, and you know, when that time comes, when I say this is our time, it’s our time to get wiser, and then work with the President, and that will quicken our time, and nobody will stop us,” he added.