Why we bought form for Ekweremadu's re-election - Enugu west

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- A southeast group has urged deputy Senate president Ike Ekweremadu to seek re-election in 2019

- The group said it bought nomination for Ekweremadu because of his achievements in office

- Ekweremadu has been in the Senate since 2003

Enugu west senatorial zone on Sunday, September 2, organised a solidarity march in support of the deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, in Enugu for his re-election.

Vanguard reports that the senatorial zone said they were in support of Ekweremadu’s re-election because he has performed creditably in office and positively touched the lives of the people of the five local government areas in Enugu west despite the prevailing economic challenges in the country. They presented interest nomination form purchased for him.

NAIJ.com gathered that the constituents who converged begging him to go back to the Senate come 2019, including the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, said there is no alternative to Ekweremadu at the moment who they said had impacted on their lives.

Presenting the nomination form, the president of Enugu west parliament, Paul Anikwe, described Ekweremadu as “God-sent, a developer and a man of the people, who honours God and respects mankind.

Anikwe disclosed that Ekweremadu has positively touched every life in the senatorial zone, adding that they are behind his bid to continue his good work.

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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had previously reported that a senior special assistant to deputy Senate president, Nnanna Nze, said that acts of intimidation allegedly being unleashed on his principal, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, by the federal government agencies are growing his profile instead of diminishing his status.

It was reported that he said that the tactics of the siege, anti-graft invitations and other coercive methods employed to make Ekweremadu yield to the machinations of the APC-led federal government were like examinations set to test one’s competence for higher classes.

It was gathered that Nze asked the agencies being used as tools, to reconsider their methods of operation and allow the rule of law to apply like in every decent democracy.

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