The Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha said the Deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu would soon be ousted from office with the assured victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Imo North Senatorial re-run poll held last Saturday.
The Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha said the Deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu would soon be ousted from office with the assured victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Imo North Senatorial re-run poll held last Saturday.
He slammed Ekweremadu for relocating to Imo during the election. The governor who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo, stated that the position of Ekweremadu as the deputy senate president was at the moment under heavy threat as the APC senator in-waiting from Imo State, Benjamin Uwajumogu would take over.
However, Ekweremadu said the Imo State governor was on a wild goose chase.
In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr Uche Anichukwu, he said he was not bothered by the “wishful” prospect.
Ekweremadu said contrary to the allegation by Okorocha that he was in Imo State during the rerun poll to influence the result, he was actually in his constituency for his annual Ikeoha Scholarship and Bursary Awards/Adult Literacy Day same day the rerun poll held, noting that the last time he visited Imo was in 2015.
He wondered how Okorocha would appoint a deputy senate president for the Senate when he could not secure any principal office for any of the two House of Representatives members in Imo State.
“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 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.
“For the same party to also claim that the same Ekweremadu who was empowering his people at Ezeagu in a well reported event on the same Saturday was also in in Imo State at the same time to influence election is just another showcase of the buffet of lies, deceit, and confusion that has become the order of the day in the ruling party.
“The Senate has a ranking rule, and if Okorocha was not able to secure a principal office, even deputy majority whip for the two House of Representatives members from Imo State, it is left to imagination how he would be able to appoint a deputy president for the Senate. He is on a wild goose chase.”
He advised the Imo governor and APC leaders in the South East to “preoccupy themselves with ending the invasions and killings by purported herdsmen, gross marginalization of Ndigbo in the distribution of opportunities and the blessings of democracy as well as the worrisome trend of inconclusive elections.”
Ekweremadu said.
