Umahi stated this while speaking to State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday.
The presidential hopeful who visited the villa to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for his two-day working trip to Ebonyi on May 5 and 6, dismissed the insinuation that the people of the South-East were no longer interested in Nigeria.
He made it known that Igbos were not in support of any form of secessionist agitation.
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According to him: “I have always said that we are not totally in support of agitation to secede. We want to belong to the Nigerian nation.
“As the Chairman of the Southeast Governors Forum, I have publicly said it, I have defended it.
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“I don’t care about the attacks and those who have taken to the politics of that matter in our place.”
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