Frantic moves by the APC to compel Ike Ekweremadu to join the party might have hit a brick-wall.
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu
Director General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, on
Monday insisted that Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, was not
needed in the All Progressives Congress, Punch reports.
It would be recalled that senator Kabiru Marafa, an APC senator
from Zamfara State, had advised Ekweremadu of the Peoples Democratic
Party representing Enugu West Senatorial Zone in the Senate, to defect
to the APC if he must keep his seat as the Deputy Senate President.
But the Enugu State Chapter of the APC has disagreed with Marafa,
stating that the party doesn't want Ekweremadu in the party. This was
restated by Okechukwu, an APC chieftain in Enugu State while speaking
with some party leaders in Enugu on Monday.
According to him, Ekweremadu must not become an APC member before Igbos accept President Muhammadu Buhari.
Okechukwu said, “Whereas, I agree with Chief Ben Nwoye
(Chairman, APC, Enugu State) that we open our doors to everybody,
however, as a democrat I do subscribe to the earlier statement of the
chapter of our great party that distinguished Senator Ike Ekweremadu
should remain in the Peoples Democratic Party to clear the mess.
“To be honest I am happy with the surge of eminent Igbo sons
and daughters into our great party, but we cannot because we want new
members, open our party too wide, we must sieve the wheat from the
chaff.
“Luckily with President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment to revamp
federal roads, N14bn already released for Second Niger Bridge, plan to
mine Enugu coal fields to generate electricity and other critical
infrastructure in our region, naturally Ndigbo will embrace Mr.
President.
“Therefore we do not need my brother Ekweremadu and his excess baggage.”
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