Enugu state chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Ben Nwoye at the weekend, boasted that his party would stop the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu from going back to the senate for the fifth term ,come 2019.
Addressing journalists after his endorsement for second term as chairman of the party in the state by Enugu East local government chapter of the party, Nwoye dismissed the recent comment credited to Ekweremadu during a rally of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the effect that APC chieftains were working with the state government due to the good work of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. “Those things are fallacies. What people see and they don’t understand is that we have a lot of people who left PDP and joined APC; big men, well known politicians.
The fact that someone switched over party doesn’t mean they stopped having friends with those who are their friends in their original party. So if you see some of our big members being friendly with those in government, it is misconstrued. “In the last LG election, did we not campaign? Why did they run away with the result sheets? Press men, you are aware that there were no result sheets; they ran away, they caused chaos and ran away.
“So if you say we are working together, we contested in 17 local governments, we contested in 260 wards and we will contest governor in this (2019) election, we are going to present credible candidate, and we will present credible candidates in all the state House of Assembly, all the Senatorial seats, all the House of Reps.
“The reality on the ground is that this election will be the most fiercely contested election in the history of Enugu state politics because we are on ground, we have most of the biggest financiers, we will challenge, and I will bet you that Enugu West senatorial seat (Ekweremadu’s seat) for sure will fall into the hands of APC come 2019.” On his endorsement for second term as state chairman, Nwoye said he was humbled, assuring the people that he had gained experience in the last four years and that things can only get better in the next four years if he was reelected for second term. “I am grateful for my endorsementbut I’m more proud of them for endorsing Emma Eneukwu, who is our zonal vice chairman. Emma Eneukwu’s endorsement shows that Nkanu people have spoken. When the Nikes speak, Nkanu follows Nike. The Nike ancient kingdom is the eldest in Nkanu land,” he said.
