The
PDP has prayed for President Muhammadu Buhari’s quick recovery as he seeks
medical attention abroad.
The
party blamed the rising cases of mass killings on the mismanagement of the
nation’s affairs.
The
Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, who led the prayer session,
noted that in times like this, Nigerians, irrespective of religious or party
affiliation, should come together to pray for the nation and its leaders.
Ekweremadu
said, “Let me quickly remind all of us that our President is presently not
feeling well and has been flown abroad for treatment. So, I will like to invite
you to rise, let us say a minute of prayer for his quick recovery.”
The
Deputy Senate President led other party members to render prayers for the quick
recovery of the President, the protection of the first family, the leaders and
Nigeria as a whole.
Ekweremadu
noted that the new spirit of reconciliation in the PDP would put the party on
the path to returning to power in 2019.
He
added, “Our dear party men and women, we must apologise to certain institutions
and aspects of our national life. And to our currency, we are worried and we
are sorry about the dwindling fortune of our currency.
“Our
economy, by the time we left in 2015, was the strongest in Africa. Today, we
sympathise with that economy but we want to assure our economy that you will be
strong again, not only in Africa, but in the whole world.
“We
want to tell all of our people who are losing their employment in banks,
construction companies that by the time PDP returns to power in 2019, the story
will change.’’
He
said the party would ensure that two members of the House of Representatives,
who left the PDP to join the All Progressives Congress, lose their seats so
that committed members would take their place.
The
Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko,
said, “These are definitely happy times for the PDP. But paradoxically, these
are unhappy times for the nation. In all my time in this country as an
adolescent and as a politically active adult, which is a few years now, dying
has never been this cheap in this country.
“Beheading,
dying have never come to the forefront of national discuss. It seems that every
day, you open the newspapers, you see people dying here; beheaded there and
people carting them away to secret graves.
“But
the mismanagement of the affairs of this country is one of the renewed strengths
of the centrifugal forces.”
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