Ngige faults Obi over performance in Senate

Dr. Chris Ngige

The Deputy Chairman of the Senate Committee on Power, Senator Chris Ngige has refuted the allegation that he has been idle at the Senate and that he has failed to sponsor any bill in the upper chamber of the National Assembly.


The senator, who is representing Anambra Central in the National Assembly, made the rebuttal on Tuesday at Ayom N’Okpala, where he held a town hall meeting with members of the Awka North and South Federal Constituency.

He said contrary to the impression that had been created, he co-sponsored three bills, which he named as the Anti-Gay Bill, the Health Bill and the National Health Insurance Bill.

Governor Peter Obi had last week lashed out at the three senators, representing the state for their inactiveness at the Senate, stressing that they even failed to sponsor a single bill in their 30-month stay in the Senate.

But Ngige said those who had criticised him, were only trying to score cheap political points, in view of the forthcoming governorship election in the state, in which he is participating.

He said he had had to represent the entire Anambra State in the Senate, at some point, when the state did not have representatives from the other two senatorial zones.

He said apart from the Senate President and the Deputy Senate President, no senator had attracted more constituency projects to his constituency than him. The same, he said, went for jobs he had helped to obtain for qualified Nigerians, mainly from Anambra State.

Ngige urged the people to ignore such reports that he was among the 34 senators that had not initiated any bill in the Senate, stating that it was the handiwork of his enemies, who wanted to dent his credentials.