Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, on Monday, laid to rest rumours linking him to governorship ambition in Enugu State in 2015.
The Senator who spoke to Senate correspondents in Abuja said that he was not interested in contesting the 2015 governorship election.
He however, said that there was currently no zoning system in Enugu and that a governorship candidate could emerge from any of the zones as far as the person was qualified.
He said: “There is no zoning arrangement in Enugu; I am not aware and nobody is aware. I have been in politics in Enugu since the beginning of this particular dispensation and each time people from different parts of the state have vied and somehow, somebody would win and I’m sure that our brothers from Nsukka understand that clearly.
“I want somebody to show me a document or a meeting where the Governorship of Enugu has ever been zoned since 1999 till date. I will be happy if somebody from Enugu North becomes governor but not on the basis of any zoning.
“Because they have people who are eminently qualified and possibly they are the only part of the state that has not produced the governor of the state, but like I said, it has nothing to do with zoning because there is nothing like zoning in Enugu as at today, but as for me, I am not running for governorship.’’
Speaking on the ongoing plan to ammend the 1999 Constitution, Ekweremadu, who is the Chairman of the 1999 Constitution Review Committee, said his committee would meet the July deadline set for the completion of work on the Constitution Amendment.
He said that what the committee had done in the last one year was basically the preliminary work which was an equally important aspect of the constitution amendment.
“We’ve tenaciously followed our programme and our timeline regarding the constitutional amendment for this period and I’m happy to say that, we have achieved our objectives in terms of the timing.
“So, hopefully we will be able to achieve our July deadline, and even if we miss it, it will not be too long”, he added.
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