A group which has been identified as the League of Anambra Media Practitioners has pleaded for the support of other political blocks in Nigeria, especially those in the Senate, for the emergence of Governor David Umahi, who is a senator-elect from Ebonyi South, Ebonyi State, as the President of the 10th Senate, which would be inaugurated by June 2023.
In a statement sent out on Monday which was signed by its national convener, Mr. Williams Orji, and secretary Mrs. Chizoba Okonkwo-Ogbeche, the group pointed out that Engr David Umahi possesses all the qualifications and experience to be the next senate president.
According to the group, Umahi was instrumental for the in-road the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), made in the South-East, immediately he cross-carpeted from the then dominant PDP to APC, an action many saw then as political suicide, but which has, today, seen as a political gain for the party, as the party now controls two states in the zone namely Ebonyi and Imo states.
This milestone, the group said, was achieved within two years of Umahi joining the All Progressives Congress.
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It went on to add that the success story of the party in Ebonyi state is “borne out of the political dexterity of the Engr Umahi, which he deployed to lift a party which hitherto had no single councilor as lately as 2020, but today has “won the three senatorial district seats in the state, three out of the six House of Representatives positions, with the result of one still outstanding, 18 out of the 20 House of Assembly seats already declared (re-run elections are to be conducted in parts of two State constituencies).
Orji said other contestants for the position of senate president, did not deliver their respective states like Engr. Umahi did in Ebonyi state, ‘even some of those claiming that it is their turn to be the next senate president lost their wards to the opposition parties in their states. How then can such people lay claim that it’s their turn to be the next senate president?’ the group queried.
He said Umahi has deployed his articulated, decisive, successful and productive ingenuity not only in running Ebonyi state, but in repositioning All Progressives Congress in the south east as a whole by placing the zone in the mainstream of Nigeria political equation.