APC govt must stop intimidating Ekweremadu – PDP chieftains

Chairmen of state chapters of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have warned the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government of All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop the unnecessary intimidation and harassment of the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.

The warning was contained in a statement issued, in Abuja, on Tuesday, by the Chairman of Conference of PDP States Chairmen, Dr. Emmanuel Agbo, who is also the Chairman of Benue State PDP.

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The PDP chieftains declared that they would mobilise members of the party across the country to resist any further attempt to harass and intimidate Ekweremadu, whose election by his colleagues as Deputy Senate President to Senator Bukola Saraki of the APC was, according to them, as a result of his outstanding performance in the previous sessions of the Senate.


They called on the APC to accept the outcome of the election of the presiding officers of both chambers of the National Assembly, which took place, on June 9, 2015, in good faith and concentrate on giving Nigerians the change they promised them.

The statement reads: “We, the States Chairmen of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) want to express unequivocally that any attempt to further harass and intimidate the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, a highly respected member of our great party will be met with nationwide resistance by our membership across the country.

“The APC government and the party should start paying due attention to the renewed spate of unprecedented violence and mass killings by the insurgent Boko Haram militants. The government, having ingloriously failed to show any understanding of the problems facing Nigerians and lacking completely in any solution, is advised to own up to its ineptitude than harass statesmen and play politics with sensitive issues of national interest. The APC government is hereby reminded that Nigerians are fed up with their national anthem of ‘meeting empty treasury’. The government should wake up from its slumber and strengthen the Naira.”

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