Immediate past Governor of Enugu State, Barr. Sullivan Chime, has again come hard on the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, accusing of perpetuating himself in the Senate.
Chime spoke at Ngwo-Uno ward, in Udi Council Area of Enugu State, where a former Chairman of PDP in the council area, Chief Donald Nnadi, popularly called “Ikeweta”, defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Chime, who congratulated the latest decampee for taking a bold decision to leave PDP, reinstated his stand that the party died long ago but only exists in name.
Apparently referring to Ekweremadu he tackled politicians in the state, who he said had occupied a particular elective position for too long due to greed and fear of the unknown.
“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.
Speaking, the national vice chairman of APC, South Zone, Chief Emma Eneukwu, represented by the zonal publicity secretary, Hyacinth Ngwu assured new members that in APC there were no new members and old members.
He urged everybody to join hands as equal partners to sack PDP in the state in the next general election.
The state chairman of the party, Dr. Ben Nwoye who received the new member stated that PDP which used to be “no shaking” in the state, was now “shaking” due to the exit of Chime, Nnadi and numerous others.
He said that the kind of defection from the PDP to the APC in recent time in the state was a clear demonstration of the fact that the PDP had been totally decimated in the state.
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