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Senator Nkechi Nwaogu, popularly known as Mama APC in Abia is eyeing to go back to the Senate as she has declared her intention to contest for the Abia Central Senatorial seat in 2027.
Senator Nwaogu who represented the zone at the upper Chambers of the national assembly in 2007, made the declaration during a stakeholders meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ward 2, Amaitolu, Mbutu, Umuojima in Osisioma Ngwa local government area of Abia State.
This is even as Sen. Nwaogu received over 500 members of other political parties that defected to the APC in the ward in support of her political aspiration.
Nwaogu, while making her intention known, said leaders of the party in the ward had approached and urged her to contest the 2027 Abia Central Senatorial District, following a leadership vacuum and absence of quality representation from occupants of the seat over the years.
Sen. Nwaogu who sought the support of her supporters and party leaders, noted that her experience as a lawmaker stands her out among other interested aspirants who have little or no legislative experience.
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She promised that her service in the senate in the next four years will bring development which the Abia Central Senatorial District has been lacking in the last 12 years because of absence of quality representation by those who have occupied the seat.
The former lawmaker who is seeking for only one term in office, enumerated her previous achievements in office and called on her supporters and members of the party in the senatorial zone to ensure that they do not put the mandate of the people of Abia Central Senatorial District in the hands of neophytes.
She used the opportunity to call for support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and others that will be seeking for political offices on the platform of APC in 2027.
Nwaogu thanked her people over their decision to unanimously nominate her to run for the Abia Central Senatorial District race in 2027; a decision she said she will not take for granted.
All the APC party stakeholders cutting across women, youths and the party leadership in the ward who thanked the lawmaker for yielding to their request, described Sen. Nwaogu as not just a square peg in a square hole, but the most qualified to fly the flag of the party in Abia Central Senatorial District in 2027.
