Ekweremadu wants to remain in Senate forever – Chime
Former Governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, on Friday claimed that the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, wad affraid of leaving the senate.
He said this in Udi Council Area of Enugu State, during the defection of a former Chairman of PDP in the council area, Chief Donald Nnadi, to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Chime, who was apparently referring to Ekweremadu said some politicians in the state, had occupied a particular elective position for too long due to greed and fear of the unknown.
He said, “The problem of our people is insatiability. If you serve, give way for others to serve. I heard that somebody has been in the senate for 14 years; next two years will make it 16 years.
“Where that kind of thing happens is where you don’t have people, but if there are other capable people, then one should serve and give way for others to serve.
“It is because they have reached the end of their capacity that they are running around like mad dogs. They are agitated and threatened, feeling that what they are holding for long is about to be taken away from them.
“Anybody who cannot survive outside politics is not fit enough to be in politics,” he said.
Chime said some people being sponsored to castigate him were fond of telling people what he did not do as governor without telling them what he did.
He stressed that under his administration, he mapped out the needs of every community in the state, through a programme tagged “Visit Every Community” (VEC), where they itemized the needs of the people and addressed most of them before living office.
He said that since government was a continuum, the present administration in the state should continue from where he stopped, more so as huge debt being owed the state, which stood at above N40 billion, at his time, was now being repaid to the present administration.
