A former Governor and serving Senator, Chimaroke Nnamani has confessed that the incumbent Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi brought him back to political limelight after 15 years as helmsman of the south eastern state.
Nnamani (PDP-Enugu East Senatorial District) stated this on Thursday during the Peoples Democratic Party campaign in Nkanu West for the February 23 2022 local government election in the state.
Nnamani, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Cooperation and Integration in Africa/NEPAD, was the Governor of Enugu from May 1999 to May 2007.
Nnamani, a medical doctor, was re-elected in 2019.
He narrated that after he left office as governor, Ugwuanyi, who is from another Senatorial District, brought him back to political limelight and ensured that he returned to the Senate.
He said: “It is because of the mandate given to me that I am here. When I came to campaign here I did not know that it will take 15 years for me to be here again.
“The lesson is that ‘Nwanne di na mba’, meaning that your brother is in another distant land and nobody knows where succour will come from.
”In the midst of dryness nobody knows where water will come from. In drought nobody knows when rain will come and when challenges become overwhelming, nobody knows where help will come from.
“For me if every door is closed, one looks for a key. When darkness is everywhere, nobody knows who will bring the light and open the door.
“It is Ifeanyi Nwa Ugwuanyi, Udulekenyi 1 of Orba that brought the light, the key and opened the door.
“He (Ugwuanyi) is not from Nkanu, he is from Udenu, this showed that indeed ‘Nwanne Di na mba.'”
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