Former governors of old Enugu State, Okwesilieze Nwodo and Ike Ekweremadu are at loggerheads over zoning arrangement and if it existed in the state or not.
Receiving members of Nkanu East Leaders’ Consultative Forum (NELCF), led by former power and steel minister, Barth Nnaji, who visited his Enugu residence to seek support in their quest for the 2023 governorship slot to be ceded to their local government area in Enugu East senatorial district, Nwodo affirmed there was a subsisting agreement on rotation among the three senatorial districts in the state.
He recalled how it was Dubem Onyia that moved the motion for zoning. His motion was that Chimaroke Nnamani from Enugu East senatorial district had become governor, Chime was on the saddle, from Enugu West senatorial district, that after Sullivan, it should move to the North (Enugu North senatorial district).
He said that those of them from Nsukka area were very happy with the motion as it was making things easy for them.
He also said that it was C. C. Egumgbe that amended the motion to say that “after it had gone round, after Enugu North senatorial, it should return to Enugu East senatorial which was supported by Ben Collins Ndu and unanimously carried along.
However, Ekweremadu, a leading aspirant for next year’s governorship election debunked Nwodo’s claim.
The former deputy Senate president said those who had purportedly zoned the seat could not have been working for the interest of the generality of the Enugu people.
Appearing as a guest on a live radio programme monitored in Enugu, he said none of the three governors that ruled the state since 1999 was a product of zoning.
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