Deputy
Senate President Ike Ekweremadu yesterday said he would not defect to the
ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) to save his job.
A
statement by his Special Assistant (Political Matters), Okey Ozoani, assured
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faithful and Nigerians that “Ekweremadu is going
nowhere”.
After
the removal of Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume as the Senate leader, there were
speculations Ekweremadu might be sacked.
Ndume
asked Ekweremadu to watch his back.
Ozoani
said: “Senator Ekweremadu is not contemplating leaving PDP. He is more
concerned about fixing the country’s biting economic and security conditions
and other challenges than saving his job as the Deputy President of the Senate.
“It
is his view that Nigeria has to first exist for us to have political parties to
belong to or political offices to occupy. Studies have shown a direct
relationship between economic conditions and survival of democracy.
“The
primary responsibility our Constitution places on our government is to cater to
the wellbeing of the citizens as well as security of their lives and property.
When such are threatened, everyone should necessarily get serious and
preoccupied with contributing his or her quota to salvaging the country.
“Besides,
he is most grateful to his colleagues for the confidence they continue to
repose in him and the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki. He is grateful
for the solidarity that the Senators have continued to accord them.”
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