Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha yesterday said Ike Ekweremadu’s position as Deputy Senate President may no longer be tenable, with the expected emergence of Benjamin Uwajumogu as Imo North senator-elect.
Uwajumogu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is leading his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) opponent Athan Acholonu with almost 9,000 votes in the results declared after weekend’s rerun.
The polls were declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) because of violence in some of the electoral units. Elections in the area with about 15,000 registered voters will be held before the final results are declared.
Okorocha is confident that Uwajumogu will win the seat.
Speaking during a thank-you party organised for APC members, the governor described Ekweremadu’s emergence as the deputy senate president to an APC Senate President as an aberration.
He said: “The position of Senator Ike Ekweremadu as the Deputy Senate President is at moment under serious threat because in no distant time, Uwajumogu will emerge as the APC Senator from Imo State.
“Senator Ekweremadu knowns that such a development is not only feasible but inevitable and that was why he fully funded the candidate of the PDP in the rerun senatorial poll in Okigwe zone. He relocated to the state for three days before the election date.
“The victory of the APC in the rerun poll for Okigwe senatorial zone is a “victory for the whole of Southeast APC in general and the people of the geo-political zone in particular” .
The governor canvassed that “the National Assembly members from Imo State on the platform of PDP should be recalled to face proper election because none of them won an election but used their Federal might and the security agencies to write results for themselves in the 2015 election. And now that sanity has been restored, they should be made to come and face real election.
“The PDP in the state has never won any election since 2003, but has written results for themselves, using intimidation and harassment to achieve their goal of producing results and forcing INEC to declare them winners on the basis of the false results.”
Okorocha added: “It appears it has become part of the political culture of the state that every election in the state must be declared inconclusive; otherwise, there was no reason Saturday’s election could have been declared inconclusive because of one ward (Osuachara) out of the 64 wards in the Okigwe senatorial zone and with the APC candidate leading his rival with more than eight thousand votes.”
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Why can't the new senator from SE take over from saraki and become senate president instead of deputy to give the people of SE sense of belonging? Why is Owele talking about the Vice senate President instead of senate president
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