Ekweremadu has no gov ambition -Nsukka indigenes

National President, Nsukka Zonal Forum, Chief Okey Agu, on Sunday, said the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, was not nursing the ambition of contesting the 2015 governorship election in Enugu State. Agu, who is a former member of the Constituent Assembly and erstwhile Chairman, Igbo-Etiti, stated this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Abuja. He said contrary to rumours in certain quarters, Ekweremadu was not contesting the poll neither was he working against the emergence of an Nsukka person as the next governor of the state. He said, “The National Secretariat of the Nsukka Zonal Forum wishes to totally dissociate itself and the good people of Nsukka zone from this calumny, show of ingratitude and disrespect to the person and Office of the Deputy President of the Senate. “It is laughable that the illogical statement claimed Senator Ekweremadu was bent on denying Nsukka people their governorship slot, and then in another breath accuses him of trying to destroy the party to perpetuate himself in the Senate. “Such untruths and tantrums could only come from those who are not at ease with his rising profile and also his overwhelming popularity among his constituents. If his constituents choose to re-elect him a million times, how is that the business of Nsukka Zonal Union?” Agu noted that the allegation against Ekweremadu was ironically levelled on the same weekend when the NZF hosted a cultural night in honour of the lawmaker and Chief Chinedu Onu, whom the Senator facilitated his appointment into the Board of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund. He explained that Ekweremadu’s well-published reaffirmation of support for Nsukka’s governorship quest during that cultural night/reception preceded the report, had further exposed those behind the report as mischief-makers.