Politics
Day I Almost Beat Up Gov Chimaroke Nnamani Inside Govt House – Ken Nnamani
Senator Ken Nnamani has opened up on how he was held back from physically beating Governor Chimaroke Nnamani days before he was elected Senate President saying that his reasoning held back the emotions to beat up the governor.
Senator Nnamani said the provocation came days before he was elected Senate President in June 2005 when the governor summoned him to Enugu to go along with his choice of another senator, he the governor, preferred as Senate President.
Ken Nnamani in the book Standing Strong: Legislative Reforms, Third Term and Other Issues of the 5th Senate said that in the approach to choosing a new Senate President that the momentum was with him but that the main challenge he had was from home in Enugu.
Ken Nnamani no relation of Chimaroke Nnamani in the book said:
“Now it would seem that the only opposition to my becoming the Senate President came from outside the Senate – my governor, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani. I knew that I did not fit into his plans for the Nigerian Senate.
“The presidency, until then, had wielded great influence in selecting who led the different houses of the National Assembly, and the governor was an acolyte of the president.
So, he must have concluded that the executives would once again have their way in determining the leadership of the Senate. To ascertain that I got the message and stepped down from the race, he invited me to Enugu.
Noting how the governor asked him to step down for another senator from Enugu, he said:
“I listened to him carefully, recalling that he had made a similar demand of me not long before. Then, I listened and heeded his call to step down.
Now, I seethed with rage just looking at him. How arrogant and contemptuous power had made him. As he spoke, my immediate inclination was to spring towards him and give him the beating of his life. I wanted to charge at him, to scream and lash out with my fists and palms. I wanted to slap him around, punch him in the face, do something vile and violent to him as the bile rose from my stomach to my throat and ager welled up inside me. instead, I steeled myself and stayed calm.
The truth is, I have never been a violent man, have never hit another man since I grew out of childhood catfights and boyhood conflicts, and I was not going to start now.
What was more, I only needed to look around at his retinue of aides and security personnel to imagine the enormous powers at his disposal. In the past, he had shown a relentless capacity for extreme meanness, brutally deploying his power to snuff out opposition.
GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that Chimaroke eventually succeeded Ken Nnamani as senator in Enugu East Senatorial District in 2007.
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