The Anglican ArchBishop of the Enugu Province, Most Rev Dr. Emmanuel
Chukwuma on Monday urged the President Muhammadu Buhari led government
to desist from further plot to remove the Deputy Senate President, Chief
Ike Ekweremadu.
The All Progressives Congress, APC, led administration had continued to rue the emergence of Ekweremadu.
Speaking to journalists on the sideline of the town hall meeting
organized by the Federal Ministry of Information in Enugu, Chukwuma also
insisted that “Nigerias is negotiable because people are
wounded; people are being sidelined and this is what is causing this
spate of bombings by Avengers and all these people who are agitators.
“The more you make Nigerians to know that they are part of the
government and receive the social amenities and care, then there will be
no need for us to talk about restructuring.
“Restructuring will surely be done because the way things are going, it has to be restructured. South-East is the only zone that has five states. You have to restructure because without restructuring there will be marginalization.”
“We need to know that Nigerians are Nigerians; to keep Nigeria as
one is a task that must be done, but Nigerians must be carried along
without any part being neglected in appointments, in infrastructure, and
even when you see how they appoint some South-East people into government, it does not translate to infrastructural development. It does not.”
He added that “this town hall meeting is an opening for the Minister
to tell the President that we are not happy; we need to be carried
along, we need to be recognized.
“But we appeal to our brothers, let us be patient and see what will
happen and this town hall meeting should not just be a jamboree, it
should be studied for implementation and action to take place as
soon as possible.”
soon as possible.”
On Ekweremadu, he noted that “What we are saying is that APC should
not be afraid of Ekweremadu; Ekweremadu is a very simple developing
senator and out of all the senators in the South East, Ekweremadu is the
most, I must say, loved, hard-working senator that APC can make use of
to develop Nigeria.
“We want to also express that it is unfortunate that the governor
of Imo State has continued to insult him and we say that this is not
right, he should be called to order by the APC because Ekweremadu was
not elected by the APC and election in the senate was not done by
governors.
“So, if a senator is going to survive in the senate, that senator must come to pay homage to the leading senator in
the South-East.
the South-East.
“The governor of Imo State should tread with caution, if he is an
Igbo man, otherwise he is a betrayer. I want to call him to order that
if he continues this way, the Igbos will deny him.
“Ekweremadu should be left alone to do his work, he has been elected
constitutionally as Deputy Senate President and nobody can remove him
there. If they do that, it means that this government doesn’t want the
Igbos, then you are calling for its secession from Nigeria because that
is the high ranking position we have and we are
all behind him and he has been performing, and he should be left to perform.”
all behind him and he has been performing, and he should be left to perform.”
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