Umeh ‘death wish’angers Obi’s aide

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Senior Special Assistant to Governor Peter Obi on Media and Publicity, Mr. Valentine Obienyem, has appealed to the National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Umeh, to stop bringing him into a controversy he knows nothing about.

Obienyem was reacting, on Sunday, to the allegation by Umeh, that he was the source of the story accusing him of wishing that the Arik plane, carrying Governor Peter Obi, which ran into  troubled weather last Tuesday, crashed.

Obienyem, who spoke in Enugu State, described as beyond explanation, his link to the story,  especially when  the Internet publication that broke the news, did not hide its identity.

Describing Umeh's statement as "unfortunate," Obienyem said Umeh's life lately had shown "the dangers inherent among those that see politics as an occupation rather than a vocation."

He said, "He should be telling us that it was merely a wish he had hoped to keep within him, which some unknown forces that took control of him made him to voice out rather than a denial lacking in conviction and full of mentioning of names of innocent people."

On the next line of action, Obienyem said he had already given the papers to his lawyer to study.

The Punch