The Senate has, on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 sworn in Isaac Afa and Benjamin Uwajumogu respectively.
The two sworn in senators are from Kogi East Senatorial District and Okigwe Senatorial District in Imo State.
Uwajumogu made history, being sworn in as the first All Progressives Congress [APC] senator from the South East.
The swearing in ceremony was performed at the hallowed red chambers of the National Assembly.
The Clerk of the Senate, Mr Nelson Ayero, charged the new Senators to always be guided in the discharge of their duties in line with the rules of the Senate and in accordance with the provisions of the constitution of the country.
Responding, Senator Uwajumogu described the event as historic, not only to the people of Okigwe zone and Imo state in particular, but to the people of the South east zone in general.
He added that it was a new dawn for the people of the area.
He pledged to use his new mandate as a Senator of the federal republic of Nigeria to uphold the principles and tenets of the country’s constitution in doing good to all manner of persons, irrespective of their tribe and religion.
Senator Uwajumogu paid glowing tributes to the good people of Okigwe senatorial zone for their painstaking effort in enthroning a new political order in the zone.
He assured them that his representation would spark up even development at every nook and cranny of the zone.
His formal inauguration as a distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was postponed last Thursday.
Uwajumogu now becomes the only APC senator of Igbo extraction in the current dispensation.
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