Ex-Gov Nnamani returns to PDP after Chime’s exit

After the exit of Enugu State’s immediate past governor, Sullivan Chime, from the Peoples Democratic Party, his predecessor, Chimaraoke Nnamani, is said to have returned to the party.

Nnamani was the state’s governor from 1999 to 2007 and represented Enugu East senatorial district at the National Assembly between 2007 and 2011 on the platform of the PDP.

However, following a misunderstanding between him and his successor, Chime, Chimaraoke dumped PDP in 2011 and joined the People for Democratic Change (PDC), a party he founded.

Nnamani had in 2011 and 2015 contested the senatorial position under the platform of the PDC and on those two occasions he lost to a PDP candidate, incumbent Senator Gilbert Nnaji.

But soon after Chime left the PDP, he branded it dead, buried and joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nnamani is said to have returned to his former party.

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There have been speculations over Nnamani joining APC like former governor of the old Anambra State, Jim Nwobodo and former Senate President Ken Nnamani.

He was said to have changed his mind from joining the APC soon after Chime defected to the party.

PDP chairman in Nnamani’s Ojiagu Agbani ward, in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State, Mr. Uwa Nnamoko, on Monday confirmed the former governor has already registered as a PDP member.

 

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