Ekweremandu’s seat threatened — Okorocha

OWERRI—Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha,
says “Ike Ekweremadu’s seat as Deputy Senate
President, is now threatened, with the emergence of
Benjamin Uwajumogu in the last senatorial re-run election
in the state.”
An obviously joyous Okorocha, fired the salvo while
speaking during a victory party for members of All
Progressives Congress, APC, in the state to celebrate the
outcome of the Saturday re-run election for Okigwe
senatorial seat and the two state constituencies of Oru-
East and Oru-West.
“The position of Senator Ike Ekweremadu as the Deputy
Senate President is at the moment under heavy threat
because in no distant time, the APC Senator in waiting
from Imo State, Benjamins Uwajumogu, will take over the
seat on the ground that it is an aberration that a PDP
senator from the South-East is Deputy to an APC Senate
President because, before now, APC could not produce a
senator from the South-East zone,” Okorocha said.
Okorocha equally opined that Senator Ekweremadu knew
that such development was not only feasible but inevitable
and that was why he fully funded the PDP candidate in
the re-run senatorial poll in Okigwe zone and also re-
located to the state three days to the election date.
Okorocha on a wild goose chase
In its reaction, the Office of the Deputy President of the
Senate in a statement issued by the Special Adviser
(Media) to the Deputy President of the Senate, said it
would have “allowed the governor to continue to wallow in
his delusions and wild claims, but, considering the fact
that this is the second consecutive statement by the
governor in one week wherein he attempted to impugn the
integrity and democratic credentials of the Office and
person of the Deputy President of the Senate, we are
being compelled to set the record straight.
“The Deputy President of the Senate visited Imo State
for the last time in 2015. It is also instructive that the
governor’s claim comes on the heels of another statement
by some All Progressives Congress (APC) elements in
Ezeagu Local Government Area on Sunday where they
whined bitterly over the huge solidarity shown by the good
people, stakeholders, and traditional rulers of Enugu State
to Senator Ekweremadu during his annual Ikeoha
Scholarship and Bursary Awards/Adult Literacy Day at the
Council headquarters on the same Saturday, June 23,
2016."