Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and Governor Rochas Okorocha
Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu has blasted Governor Rochas
Okorocha for daring to suggest that he relocated to Imo state during the
inconclusive Imo North Senatorial District re-run election, in a bid to
influence the outcome in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
and saying that he will soon lose his position in the senate.
In a statement released by his Special Adviser on Media, Uche
Anichukwu, the Deputy Senate President said Okorocha is wallowing in
delusion and trying too hard to discredit his integrity.
The statement read:
“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.
“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.”
He advised Governor Okorocha and other APC leaders in the South East zone 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 rubbished Okorocha's statement saying he has a poor
understanding of the workings of the legislature, and maintained that he
was not disturbed in any way by the wishful prospects of an APC Senator
of South East extraction.
“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.”
It would be recalled that Governor Okorocha had earlier attacked
Ekweremadu as he said he will soon be removed from his position.
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