Disbelief As PDP Senator, Chimaroke Nnamani, Is Listed Member, Tinubu Presidential Council

By Charles Igbo

Was it a mistake, mischief or the plain truth? This is the question that members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, nationwide are asking.

A former two-time Governor of Enugu State, Dr Chimaroke Nnamani, a serving PDP Senator, is one of those listed as a member of the 422-member Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress, APC. He is number 350 on the list.

For the PDP, especially, the Enugu State Chapter of the Party, this comes as an embarrassment. Dr Nnamani, popular as Ebeano, has a cult-like following in Enugu State, especially, within the PDP.

Most of those either holding , or held, or would hold important positions in the State, are “his boys”. They rose from his political family, “Ebeano.” They include, among others, former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, embattled former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu who was his Chief of Staff, Governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, immediate past Governor of the State, Sullivan Chime, who was his Commissioner, former Minister of Information, Frank Nweke, who was his Chief of Staff, and now the Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and more importantly, the PDP 2023 Governorship candidate, Enugu, Peter Mba who was his Chief of Staff. Nnamani and the Governor are responsible for Mba’s candidacy.

It is not known when (and if) Senator Nnamani started working for the APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. But a couple of months ago, he wrote a viral, patronizing article on Tinubu, literally, promoting his Presidential aspiration.

Speculations are rife that, perhaps, he has the support of his Governor, Ugwuanyi, to work for Tinubu. Ugwuanyi is one of the four PDP Governors in the Camp of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, who, till date, do not support the Presidential candidate of the PDP,  Atiku Abubakar.

Not a few people see Nnamani’s membership of the APC Presidential Council, as perhaps, a pointer, that the Wike Camp may back Tinubu in 2023.

The ball is in the court of Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, an accomplished and distinguished Medical Doctor -turned politician, to say whether the inclusion of his name was a mistake, a mischief, or endorsed by him.