Imo State Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere, may have made up his mind to contest the governorship during the 2019 elections. Indications to this effect came on Sunday, even as news made the rounds that his boss and long-time friend, Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has called on him to vie for the Imo East senatorial seat,

Prince Madumere spoke on his travails and dropped hints while addressing the congregation at his country home, Achi-Mbieri, Mbaitoli Local Government Area on the importance of lent in the life of Christians, especially as it concerns the agony and betrayals the Lord Jesus Christ experienced before making the ultimate sacrifice for redemption of man against eternal destruction.

Prince Madumere in an emotion-laden admonition said that if Jesus Christ could be ill-treated by those he called his friends and was later betrayed by Judas, how much more a mere mortal like himself.

He spoke of how he has experienced “agony, betrayals, insults and molestation” from those he has shown love, including those he nurtured to become relevant in life.

He submitted that, like the Lord Jesus Christ, he “has chosen his path towards realising God’s given vision to better the lots of Imolites”. He explained that his fate is in no man’s hand.

News Express reports that calls on Prince Madumere to join the governorship race have continued to reverberate across Imo State, with several groups and individuals singling him out as the most qualified for the plum job. They adduce reasons of experience, humility, administrative prowess and competence, adding that his emergence will solve the problem of experimental governorship in the state.