Former Minister of Information and national orientation, Mr. Frank Nweke (junior), has declared his intention to contest for the Enugu East senatorial district seat in 2015.
This is coming amidst
speculations that the former Governor of Enugu State, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani and
the Chief of Staff to Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, Mrs. Ifeoma
Nwobodo are equally interested in the same position.
Meanwhile, Senator
Gilbert Nnaji, chairman, Senate committee on communication, who is currently
representing the zone is also said to be nursing ambition to return to the Senate.
The former minister,
who hails from Ozalla, in Nkanu West Local Government Area of the state, served
as information minister between june 2005, to January 2007 under former
President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration.
Announcing his
ambition to journalists at his Enugu residence on Saturday, the erstwhile
minister, who is the incumbent Director- General, Nigeria Economic Summit
Group, (NESG) said he decided to join the race because of his desire to provide
quality representation to people of the zone.
“I believe I am
eminently qualified, and has what it takes to represent the good people of
Enugu east senatorial zone at the senate come 2015.
“I also strongly
believed that I have what it takes to become the most effective and vibrant
Senator Enugu-East senatorial district has ever produced, if given the
opportunity to serve in 2015″.
Asked how he intend
to slug it out with his former boss and ally, and former Governor of Enugu
state, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, who speculations are making the rounds in some quarters
that he is also interested in the office, Nweke said, with due respect to all
those nursing the ambition for the seat, “but it is the electorate of the area
that will decide who will represent them” at the upper chamber of the National
Assembly NASS in 2015.
However, he declined
comment on the political platform he would use to actualize the ambition.
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