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| Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu |
Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, on Sunday
expressed concern over the divisive tendencies of the President
Muhammadu Buhari led administration.
The Senator spoke in Enugu during a solidarity visit to him by members of the Enugu State Economic Advisory Council.
The group, led by Monsignor Professor Obiora Ike had disclosed that
they were in the visit to show solidarity to Ekweremadu over the
face-off between the Senate leadership and the Executive arm.
He said the group equally needed to get clear information on the matter.
According to the renowned cleric: “We are here because we have heard a
lot of noise from Abuja. We are here because we support the principles
of separation of power; separation of power guarantees freedom and
brings stability in governance. So, we are here to hear what is
happening in the National Assembly.
“We want to assure you that our people are solidly behind you; our
people believe in you; whenever you are in public office, there will
always be challenges but if you are upright, you will emerge stronger.”
Professor Ike advised the federal government to focus its energy on
development, reconciliation, building bridges, stressing “we need
Nigeria to move forward.”
Those on the visit also included former power minister, Prof. Barth
Nnaji, former economic adviser to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Prof.
Osita Ogbu, among others.
While addressing the delegation, Ekweremadu re-echoed his earlier
stand that he was innocent of the forgery allegation, stressing that it
had to do with ill-feelings in some quarters over the emergence of the
Senate leadership.
He maintained that the Buhari led government had neglected major
issues affecting the country, while busy pursuing sectional agenda.
He declared that: “our country has never been as divided as it is
now; my heart bleeds because that is not what we desire for this
country.”
On the suit against him in court, Ekweremadu declared: “I restate my
innocence. I forged no document; none of the accused persons forged any
document.”
While declining to speak more on the matter since it was already in
court, he expressed his commitment towards the independence of the
legislature, maintaining that “we will come and go but the Senate as an
institution will remain.”
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