This female Senator will not succumb to people saying she should step down for Ngige

by Ranti Joseph

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The Senator elect for Anambra Central senatorial district, Uche Ekwunife appears ready to weather all the pressures being mounted on her by elders and some political stake holders in the district to renounce her mandate for Senator Chris Ngige who is also from the district.

Ekwunife won the senatorial seat in the March 28, 2015 National Assembly election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), by defeating Victor Umeh of the All Progressives Grand Alliance ( APGA) and Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress ( APC).

Ever since, she has been under pressure to renounce the mandate for Ngige, for the purposes of a South Easterner clinching the position of Senate President in the coming 8th Senate.

While responding to questions from journalists on Friday in Abuja at the just ended 4- day induction course held for federal lawmakers elect, for the 8th National Assembly, she confirmed the pressures but categorically said that she would never succumb to such pressure.

“Yes, there has been immense pressure from various quarters in the Anambra central senatorial zone and by extension, Anambra State, on me to renounce the popular mandate given to me by the people of the senatorial district for somebody ( Ngige) I defeated flatly for reasons of power sharing they are not even sure of.

“Even if they are sure of whatever position they want the person they are pressurising me to step down for, I will never take that from them because the mandate as far as I am concerned is far, far bigger than being sacrificed on the altar of power sharing.”

Pressures mounted on Ekwunife arose out of the political reality that none of the 15 senators elected from the South East for the coming 8th Senate, is a member of the APC, the party whose senators-elect, are expected to form the leadership of the Senate, having won 60 out of the available 109 seats.

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