Leader of Oji-River Progressive Action, OPA, Mr. Chuks Madueke,  has said that Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State and Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, should be held responsible for denying Oji River local government area,  the Aninri, Awgu and Oji River House of Representatives seat slot held by the council for two terms.

The seat is now zoned to Awgu local government area  by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. He described as questionable the party primaries at which the position was zoned. Madueke also blamed Oji River leaders and politicians for their divisive tendencies, saying they were not responsive and proactive enough to project the council’s fortunes, even as he chided the council’s leaders for complacency  and selfishness.

He, however, called for both the Senate and House of Representatives’ slots to be re-zoned afresh among the three councils to make  up the constituency, instead of the PDP leaving the Senate slot for Aninri under Ekweremadu for a third term, while Oji River, on the other hand, was denied its third term at the Lower House.

According to him, Awgu council should have been given the Senate slot while Aninri and Oji River Councils would which of them will go for the House of Representatives slot if the party was not maintaining the status quo.