Ekweremadu says Nigerians will beg PDP to come back in 2019 after four years of APC

DEPUTY senate president Senator Ike Ekweremadu has predicted that Nigerians will beg the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to return to power in 2019 after suffering from the hardships that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will subject them to.

 

Speaking at a meeting of the southeast caucus of the PDP over the weekend, Senator Ekweremadu expressed concern over the poor situation of the country’s economy, hinting that business may collapse within the next six months. He added that the APC had shown that it was not a good manager of the economy, stressing that there has been an unchecked downfall in the value of the naira, which now exchanges for N260 to the US dollar.

 

Senator Ekweremadu said: “So many people are worried over the situation of Nigerians in the hands of the APC and I don’t know what will happen between now and 2019. Unless the APC changes their style, Nigerians will be begging PDP to come back."

On the fight against corruption, Senator Ekweremadu accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration of adopting a selective-approach. He equally called on Buhari’s government to urgently address all cries of injustice in the country, noting that there are a lot of complaints in the country and there is no way injustice and peace can co-exist.

"The fight against corruption is selective, most of it media orchestrated. We are prepared to join hands with the government to fight corruption but it must be done in a very civilized way.”

PDP national publicity secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh accused the APC of running a government of falsehood and propaganda, which he said was bound to fail. He slammed the government for engaging in what he called imaginary convictions, stressing that you cannot convict people in the media and the people who have refunded money should not only be named but should be tried publicly and jailed.

On the on-going pro-Biafra protest, Chief Metuh urged security agencies to respect the people’s rights. He observed that the right to peaceful protest was protected under democracy and stressed that instead of flexing muscles with innocent and unarmed protesters, security agents should move to the Sambisa forest and battle the Boko Haram sect.

 

Attended by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State as well as the deputy governor of Ebonyi State and several National Assembly members, the meeting passed a vote of confidence in Senator Ekweremadu and the members of the southeast zonal working committee of the party. Thanking them for this, Senator Ekweremadu cautioned that if something was not done urgently, the Onitsha and Alaba markets would close down in the next six months because traders would run out of stock.