I’ll hand over to Nkanu man in 2023, Gov Ugwuanyi vows

Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, says he will hand over to a governor of Nkanu extraction at the expiration of his second term in office in 2023.
Ugwuanyi said this on Monday in Enugu during a solidarity visit by members of the Peoples Democratic Party from Nkanu East Local Government Area of the state.
However, the governor said that for power to shift to Nkanu in Enugu East Senatorial Zone, the people of the area must keep faith with the PDP.
He appealed to the people of the area to honour what he called “a long term agreement” they had with the PDP.
He said that the people of the area supported the party when their son, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, was governor between 1999 and 2007.
He also said that when power moved to Enugu West Senatorial Zone during the administration of Mr. Sullivan Chime between 2007 and 2015, the people remained firm in the agreement it had with the party.
However, the governor said that there were certain governorship candidates whose victory at the 2019 election would alter the formula.
“If you leave me, the formula will change,” he warned.
Earlier, the chairman of Nkanu East Local Government Area, Mr. Ikechukwu Ubagu, had said that the visit was in appreciation of the kind gestures of the governor to the people of the area.
(NAN)