…Enugu PDP chairman dismisses them as relevance seekers
From Chidi Nnadi, Enugu
MEMBERS of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ezeagu Local Government Area yesterday tackled the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, urging him to stop dragging the name of Ezeagu and Igbo into his legal tangle.
The APC members in a statement signed by the state Publicity Secretary, Mrs. Kate Ofor, Legal Adviser of Enugu West Senatorial zone and Ezeagu House of Assembly Constituency candidate in the 2015 general elections, Anayo Iyama, Chief Chibuike Obu and Robinson Anyanechi, said they were angered by the statement issued by 30 traditional rulers at Ezeagu council on Saturday. In the statement, Igwe Hafford Agana on behalf of other traditional rulers assured Ekweremadu that nothing would happen to him at his Senate forgery trial. The APC chieftains, therefore, “warned Senator Ekweremadu to desist from dragging our revered traditional institution into partisan politics and Ndigbo in general” to what they termed an internal affairs of the Senate.
“Our understanding of the issue at stake is that some senators labelled Unity Forum felt aggrieved after the June 9, 2015 Senate leadership election and thereafter alleged that the Senate Rules Book was doctored by Senator Ekweremadu and cohorts.
“The Unity Forum reported the matter to the police, which after investigation it was filed to court by the Attorney General of the Federation. To us it is only the court which can resolve the matter either way.”
When contacted on phone, the Enugu West zonal Chairman of the PDP, Okey Ozoani, said he would “not join issues with relevance-seekers, although it is instructive that they have finally admitted that the issue of Standing Rules is an internal affair of the Senate.
“Although their statement is a typical hand of Esau and voice of Jacob, you know it is not for all kinds of rain that you run around to remove your items.
“If handing over N40 million in scholarships and bursary awards to indigent students; if giving education to over 10,000 adult learners in 32 centres across Enugu West; and if empowering over 250 widows from Enugu West and beyond, which we have done consistently are not worth celebrating, then they should brace up and out-perform us. We will also be glad to celebrate them.”
“When those deserving our response talk, we will reply them accordingly and unequivocally. But if I were them, I would rather concern myself with ensuring that their ruling party ends the herdsmen menace in the region, tackle the biting economy, and fight for even a reasonable inclusion of the South-East geopolitical zone in the scheme of things.”