Rescheduled Enugu East Senatorial Election: Younger Brother Of Late Chukwu Named LP Candidate

The younger brother of Late Oyibo Chukwu, the Labour Party’s (LP’s) Senatorial Candidate for Enugu East Senatorial District who was murdered on February 22nd 2023 has been elected Candidate for the party in the rescheduled Senatorial election in Enugu.

His name is Kelvin Chukwu, a lawyer and a mass communicator.
He was elected the Labour Party’s standard bearer on Saturday,  March 4th, 2023.
He polled 223 out of the  231 votes cast during  a primary conducted  at Top 10 Hotel, Golf Estate, Enugu.
Other contestants in the primary election which was conducted under a peaceful atmosphere were Dr Chinyeaka Ohaa, a retired permanent secretary; Chief Stanislaus Chinedu Nneji, commandant of the National Peace Corps; and Emmanuel Uchenna Ogbodo, Special Adviser to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.
The election was conducted by the Labour Party National Vice Chairman for the Southeast, Chief Agumba Okeke, and the Enugu State chairman of the party, Barrister Casmir Uchenna Agbo alongside other LP executives in the state.

Delegates came from all six local government areas that make up the Enugu East senatorial district.

In his acceptance speech, Chukwu assured that he would represent his people effectively and fulfil all promises made by his late elder brother during his electioneering campaign.
“I recognise your mandate as a sacred trust”, he told the large cheering crowd in a very short speech.

Professor Silk Ugwu-Ogbu of the Pan-Atlantic University in Lagos who hails from Enugu East also congratulated him noting that the party could not have chosen a better candidate for the election.

“Public sympathy is very strong with the Chukwu family because of the manner in which his elder brother was killed and then his body and vehicle burnt”, he said.
The professor believes that the new Labour Party candidate, “is going to win the election with a tremendous margin and almost effortlessly, as already indicated in the huge number of votes he won in the primary election”.

Kelvin Chukwu’s two elder brothers, Chief Lucky Chukwu, a former commissioner in Enugu State, and Professor Arthur Chukwu of the Nigerian Law School, both lawyers, unanimously chose their younger brother, Kelvin to run in consideration of “his extraordinary humility, kindness, devotion to the Catholic Church and an uncanny ability to get along with people”, according to Professor Ugwu-Ogbu.