{"id":93246,"date":"2021-10-14T08:36:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T07:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=93246"},"modified":"2021-10-14T08:36:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T07:36:25","slug":"ken-nnamani-narrates-how-he-was-ordered-to-drop-his-senate-presidency-bid-for-ekweremadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/10\/14\/ken-nnamani-narrates-how-he-was-ordered-to-drop-his-senate-presidency-bid-for-ekweremadu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Nnamani narrates how he was ordered to drop his senate presidency bid for Ekweremadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former senate president, Ken Nnamani has disclosed that ex-governor of Enugu, Chimaroke Nnamani ordered him to drop his senate president ambition for Ike Ekweremadu.<\/p>\n<p>This disclosure was made by the former senate president when she spoke on the issue\u00a0in his newly released book, \u2018Standing Strong: Legislative Reforms, Third Term and Other Issues of the 5th Senate\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nnamani,\u00a0he bowed to the former governor\u2019s request the first time \u2014 in 2003 \u2014 but Ekweremadu lost the senate presidency contest to Adolphus Wabara.<\/p>\n<p>The former senate president said he agreed, because he didn\u2019t want to \u201crock the boat and create political tension\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I was encouraged by my colleagues to run for the position, my governor, Chimaroke Nnamani, was opposed to it,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis preferred candidate for that position was a certain Ike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/10\/12\/biafra-igbo-nass-caucus-quietly-working-to-release-nnamdi-kanu-ekweremadu\/\">Ekweremadu<\/a>, the senator representing Enugu west senatorial zone in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governor made it clear to me that the man, who was also a first-term senator, was his candidate for senate president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing by the support I was receiving from my colleagues, I could have ignored my governor and run for the position. And perhaps I could have won. But I did not want to rock the boat and create political tension in my state. So, I deferred to the governor and withdrew from the contest for the position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, Wabara resigned after he got into trouble over allegations of bribery.<\/p>\n<p>With the apex position at the red chamber vacant, Nnamani expressed interest, but he said Chimaroke again \u201cordered\u201d him to step aside for Ekweremadu.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, Nnamani said he systematically declined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the new race for senate president with only senators from my state, Enugu, potentially running, I felt confident that I stood in better stead than others to win and lead the distinguishing assembly,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut again, my governor, Chimaroke Nnamani, appeared on the scene. Again, he advised\u2026 no, ordered\u2026 that I must not run but instead must support senator Ekweremadu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe audacity with which he delivered his directive was beyond belief. While ordering me to hands-off the race, he said, to my anger and utter consternation, that he had sent Ekweremadu to the senate specifically for that role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nnamani also said\u00a0his emergence as head of the national assembly in 2005 gave the legislators the opportunity to ward off the \u201cdomineering executive control\u201d during the fifth senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy my election to the seat of senate president, the senate was serving notice that it was ready to purge itself of puppet leadership,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe senators were rebelling against what they saw as undue interference in their affairs by the executive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey clearly wanted an independent legislature as enshrined in the constitution. They saw in my emergence an opportunity to do that, to break free from the stranglehold of a domineering executive branch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy defying the executive and rejecting its interference in choosing its leadership, the Fifth senate metamorphosed from one in which the presidency remote-controlled its business, to one where senators were determined to carry out their law-making and oversight functions independently.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former senate president, Ken Nnamani has disclosed that ex-governor of Enugu, Chimaroke Nnamani ordered him to drop his senate president ambition for Ike Ekweremadu. 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