Few days after people of Awgu, in Enugu West Senatorial
district purportedly endorsed Governor Sullivan Chime for Senate in the 2015,
indigenes of the area have disowned the endorsement, saying they are not part
of the support. However, the President of Ugwulesi Autonomous Community Town
Union in Awgu Town, Dr. Dominic Ogbu, has released a statement saying that
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.”
The statement read in parts: "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.
"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 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",
the statement concluded.
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