By Emmanuel Uzodinma Former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu is now on his way to the All Progressives Congress, APC,...
By Emmanuel Uzodinma
Former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu is
now on his way to the All Progressives Congress, APC, DAILY POST has learnt.
This came days after the Enugu State Chairman of the party,
Barr. Ugo Agballa had said the lawmaker would not get the party’s governorship
ticket.
However, a source within the party confirmed that following
a high level consultation with the national leadership of the party, all is now
set for Ekweremadu to join the ruling party.
The source said the latest meeting was led by Governor Hope
Uzodinma of Imo State, who is believed to be the leader of the party in the
South-East.
Uzodinma and Ekweremadu met with the National Chairman of
the APC, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu on Monday.
The closed-door meeting lasted three hours at the party’s
secretariat in Abuja, with sources close to the party Secretariat disclosing
that although Ekweremadu requested for the governorship ticket of the party in
Enugu state, but he was told that the party had already concluded it’s guber
primaries where Chief Uche Nnaji, Nwakaibie, emerged candidate of the party.
It was learned that the party told the former Deputy Senate
President to join the party first with his supporters and other positions could
be worked out for them.
The Senator was in the race for the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, ticket but pulled out before the commencement of the primary
election.
Already, the APC has also conducted its governorship primary
election in Enugu State, with Uche Nnaji emerging the winner.
It is left to be seen the decision the party would take in
the coming days, as some members of the party are also upbeat about the party’s
flagbearer, Nnaji, who they said is not a strange bed-fellow with politics.
They see him as a political grand master who had preferred
to work behind the scene.
Recall that in 1999, he won the senatorial seat for Enugu
East under his former party, the Alliance for Democracy (AD), but stepped down
for the former Anambra State Governor, Chief Jim Nwobodo.
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