The senator representing Enugu west
constituency, Dr Ike Ekweremadu has on Tuesday declared his
The senator representing Enugu west
constituency, Dr Ike Ekweremadu has on Tuesday declared his intension to
represent his constituency for the fifth time in the senate. Ekweremadu who
disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday morning, averred that he was persuaded
by his people to return to the senate. “My people, the good people of Enugu
West Senatorial District, including the Enugu West Peoples Assembly, Members of
the National Assembly, Council Chairmen, members of the Enugu State Executive
Council, Enugu State Chapter of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, leaders of the PDP from Enugu
West, among others gave me a surprise on Sunday.
“They presented to me the PDP
nomination form for the Senate, which they purchased for me, requesting that I
return to the Senate in 2019. “My people, my primary employers have spoken. I
have no choice than to humbly accept to run for the Senate again”, he said.
Recall that the Deputy Senate President had since May 2003 represented his
people when Chimaroke Nnamani was then governor of Enugu state.
He retained the seat in 2007 when
Sullivan Chime on 29 May 2007 took over from Chimaroke. Sullivan served for two
terms before handing over to Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. Gborugboru is still serving for
his first term and Ekweremadu is still retaining his seat. Numerically
Ekweremadu has served for fifteen (15) consecutive years.
However, startled with the
nomination form purchased by his people, Ekweremadu opined that “Instructively,
only a Few weeks ago, I reflected on my past engagements with the people of
Enugu West and I was satisfied that, by the grace of God, we were able to make
so many improvements in the lives of our people. “I reflected on my next move
and the available options. One option is to come back to you in Enugu and run
my Foundation, which will give me opportunity to mentor young men and women in
leadership.
The second is probably to go to a
university and take a fulltime academic job and also try to mentor young people
in school. And behold my people came calling. “My people, my primary employers
have spoken. I have no choice than to humbly accept to run for the Senate
again.
Pointing on pure democratic
principles and political inclusiveness Dr Ekweremadu stated that “Nevertheless,
I believe that the beauty of democracy is the enlargement of the political
space in which everybody is free to participate, bring and exchange ideas, and
disagree in order to agree. Just yesterday, I got a call from a man who
introduced himself as an engineer from Achi, but lives in Jigawa.
He later came with his family to
tell me that he wanted to run for the Senate in Enugu West. I congratulated him
and offered to help purchase his nomination form. But he told me he had already
bought his form. He was quite surprised when I offered to buy form for him. But
it has always been my philosophy to help nurture the opposition, for as far as I
am concerned, all power belongs to God and we should never try to reduce the
political space. We must allow and indeed encourage other people to
participate.”
Read more at: http://danelite.blogspot.com/2018/09/nigerias-dangote-group-has-emerged-most.html
Read more at: http://danelite.blogspot.com/2018/09/nigerias-dangote-group-has-emerged-most.html
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