Ebonyi State Governor, Francis Nwifuru, has threatened to sack any local government chairman who fails to deliver his council area to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 elections.
The governor gave the warning on Tuesday while inaugurating the newly elected chairmen and vice chairmen of the 13 local government areas of the state in Abakaliki, the state capital.
Nwifuru warned that the chairmen must work to secure victory for the APC in their respective areas, stressing that anyone who chooses to sleep and allows others to take over their areas would be removed. The governor equally warned the vice chairmen against rivalry, charging them to support their chairmen and likening their positions to spare tyres inside a car boot.
According to him, the vice chairmen should only step in when their chairmen are unable to function, warning them against listening to gossip or bad advice from friends that could damage their relationship with their chairmen.
“Any chairman who fails to win his council will be removed from office and replaced with a councillor. I want this information to be in the headlines of newspapers because, as politicians, we would not speak in secret,” he said.
