Chikamnayo as the transition committee chairman nominee for Umunneochi
Local Government Area.
Chikamnayo currently serves as the Special Adviser to Governor Okezie
Ikpeazu on Media and Strategic communication.
The governor had sent to the House the names of Chief Godswill Nwonoruo
and Barr. Tony Nwanmuo, as commissioner nominees and Chief Eze
Chikamnayo as the transition committee chairman nominee for Umunneochi
LGA.
The House had conducted the confirmation of the nominees through raising
of hands. When Chikamnayo’s name was called for confirmation by the
Speaker, Chief Chinedum Orji, the members kept their hands down.
The House had taken Chikamnayo on an open letter where the nominee
called on the Speaker to resign over his visit to the Senate Chief Whip,
Chief Orji Uzor Kalu.
Majority Leader, Chief Solomon Akpulonu, and the member representing
Isiala Ngwa North constituency, Hon. Ginger Onwusibe, also read two
separate open letters in the social media where Chikamnayo allegedly
accused the governor of allocating government land to his wife as well
as the state government inflating contract awards.
Member for Aba South, Obinna Ichita, insisted that Chikamnayo is not a
fit and proper person to be appointed to the position of a Transition
committee chairman.
The nominee who is a former Commissioner for Information in the state,
neither denied nor confirmed the allegations, but claimed that most of
the allegations were taken out of context. He also stated that he has
never accused the speaker of incompetence, adding that some of his
writings came from information from sources where he defended his then
masters.
He said; “I can’t remember the specific words I used in the letters. I
write too many letters. This is what we call occupational hazards; we
are the first line of attack and the first line of defence in the job we
do. The allegations remain allegations until they are proved.”
In his ruling the speaker said; I’m not bothered by your letters. You
always try to intimidate people to give positions, you tried it with
former governors, but it won’t work with me. If somebody had told you
that the same person you maligned will be the same to preside over your
screening, you won’t have believed, but this is the irony of life. You
are always maligning people. You didn’t have the courtesy to say that
some of the letters are false.
“Eze Chikamnayo having failed to satisfy the House, we hereby refer his
name back to the governor.”
The House confirmed Tony Nwanmuo nomination as Commissioner while the
screening of Godswill Nwonoruo was suspended. A member representing
Osisioma Ngwa South state constituency, Hon. Nnamdi Allen Nwachukwu said
he doesn’t have the mandate of his constituency to support Nwonoruo’s
nomination.
Pointblanknews.com gathered that Nnamdi Allen’s family has been engaged
in a protracted feud with Nwonoruo over sundry issues.