From George Onyejiuwa, Owerri
The Imo State Labour Party (LP) said that Senator Ezenwa Onyewuchi, member representing the Imo East (Owerri) senatorial is an ingrate, describing his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as shameless and dishonourable after his months of hide and seek with the party.
It noted that while Onyewuchi will not be missed, it will use every legal avenue to reclaim the mandate given to him.
The Imo LP also noted that for the life jacket given to Onyewuchi, his political career would have been over following his heavy defeat at the PDP senatorial primaries. However, he was revived by the party which backed and sponsored him.
A statement by the state Publicity Secretary, Bright Ofurum, yesterday, said: “We received the unfortunate news that the member representing Imo East (Owerri), Senator Ezenwa Onyewuchi has defected to the APC on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday after his months of hide and seek with the APC.
“From the very day he was sworn into the 10th Senate, he has not attended any of our party’s meetings or functions and has not added any value to our party, so he will not be missed at all. We recall that his political career was drowned and dead after he was terribly defeated in the PDP senatorial primaries, even as a serving senator, before our great party took pity on him, picked him up from the depths of the ocean, gave him life jacket (our party’s ticket) and revived him politically.
“In the light of the current development and in line with the 1999 constitution as amended, we request him to do the needful and resign immediately from the Senate, following his defection to the APC. He is carrying the mandate of our party.
“We call on the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, to declare his seat vacant within three days in line with section 68(2)of the 1999 constitution as amended; failure to do that, we will invoke all available legal avenues to reclaim our mandate.”