Stakeholders from Enugu East Senatorial Zone right see from a meeting Sunday insisting that it is their turn to produce the next Governor in 2023.
In a well attended meeting at the palace of Igwe Julius Nnaji of Nike, the big wigs from the zone said the zoning of the position to the them is non negotiable.
Former Senate President, Ken Nnamani; Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly, Edward Ubosi; traditional rulers from Enugu east were among stakeholders who made the declaration.
Other stakeholders of the zone that attended the meeting included political and traditional leaders, youth and women groups.
Addressing the gathering, former Senate President Ken Nnamani stated that his political party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, had already made announcement that the Party will only give ticket the 2023 governorship ticket to an aspirant from Enugu east senatorial zone.
Supporting the resolution that 2023 governorship ticket is exclusive to Enugu east senatorial zone, former governor of the state, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani said that the agreement should be respected, noting that it was the entrenched zoning arrangement that has kept the state in a state of peace and tranquility.
Speaker Edward Ubosi who convened the meeting stated that for peace sake, the zoning arrangement should be respected in the state.
“The people of Enugu East senatorial zone were gathered to say that we are not ready to fight over the issue of 2023 governorship because it is our turn. We are not fighting with anybody on that.
“We want other senatorial zones to support us. It started in the Chimaroke time, and at the end of his tenure he handed over to Sullivan and at the end of Sullivan he handed over to Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and it is necessary that at the end of the Ugwuanyi tenure it will come back to us,” Ubosi said.
The meeting urged the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to announce as APC did that the party will cede it’s governorship ticket to Enugu east senatorial zone.
