Ekweremadu Replies Okorocha...Exposes Why the Governor Is Bitter

Posted by Thandiubani on Wed 27th Jul, 2016 - tori.ng

The deputy senate president has lambasted the governor of Imo State for his unruly comments against his person.

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.