Outgoing Governors Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State are under pressure. The pressure is how to produce their successors after the defeat they personally suffered, as well as their Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the Presidential and National Assembly elections in the February 25 elections.
Indeed, these governors, whose tenure ends in May 29, 2023, had wanted to go to the senate afterwards. This was not to be as they lost woefully in their senatorial zones. While Ugwuanyi lost to Okey Ezea of the Labour Party (LP); Ikpeazu lost to Enyinnaya Abaribe of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). While the PDP under the Ugwuanyi secured one of the two senatorial seats and one of the seven House of Reps seats in Enugu State; the party under Ikpeazu only secured one House of Reps seat in the elections.
