2015: Group Endorses Chime For Ekweremadu’s Seat

Posted by African Examiner Featured, Latest Headlines Wednesday, January 15th, 2014

Ignatius Okpara, Enugu

Ahead of the 2015 general polls, a pressure group, under the aegis of Enugu Salvation Group (ESG) tuesday endorsed Governor Sullivan Chime for the Enugu West senatorial seat in the National Assembly NASS.

Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu

This is coming barely a week after kinsmen of the governor from Umuneke Udi clan equally endorsed Ekweremadu to return to the senate for a record fourth term by 2015.

Briefing newsmen in Enugu, ESG National Coordinator, Steve Igweze, stated that the group would soon write Governor Chime formally, asking him to contest for the senate in the 2015 general elections.

Igweze hinted that a survey conducted by his group in Enugu West showed that the people overwhelmingly preferred Governor Chime to Senator Ekweremadu, who has reached his zenith in the senate as a ‘third term senator’.

The ESG helmsman, advised Ekweremadu to drop his ambition to allow Governor Chime to go the senate and give the Enugu West people quality representation, ‘for the prevailing axiom is turn by turn Plc’. He declared