The people of Awgu have denounced their purported adoption of Governor Sullivan Chime for the Senate in the 2015 general election as reported by a national daily.
A statement made available to newsmen in Enugu today by the President of Ugwulesi Autonomous Community Town Union in Awgu Town, Dr. Dominic Ogbu, said those who visited Chime were “self-appointed political jobbers representing no community from Awgu, hence neither represented the views of their village, let alone those of Awgu people.”
According to Dr. Ogbu, “there are three autonomous communities in Awgu town and Chief Stephen Onuoha is not a Traditional Prime Minister to any of the three traditional rulers in Awgu and could not be representing any autonomous community in Awgu town since he has no mandate whatsoever to act in that capacity”.
The statement read in part: “Although we understand the quest for endorsement to be Governor Chime’s desperate reaction to the rising agitation by our people against the age-long marginalization of Awgu in the political equation of the State, it would be illogical and foolhardy for him to believe that we would ever abandon the worthy cause by supporting the senatorial ambition of a Governor who has not only sustained the injustice against our people, but has consistently taken conscious steps to worsen our lots within the Enugu commonwealth”
“We, therefore, advise the Governor to immediately ask for a refund from his handlers and those political contractors who sold him a false endorsement because they have played a fast one on him.”
Dr. Ogbu insisted that Awgu people were “unshaken in their total resolve to ensure that the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu returns as Senator of Enugu West Senatorial Zone come 2015 because he has acquitted himself most excellently in this position, bringing about quality representation and rural transformation.”
“We therefore further advice Governor Sullivan Chime and his vain-chasers to count Awgu people out of his desperate quest for endorsement”, it added.
