SAN FRANCISCO, December 19, (THEWILL) – The All Progressives Congress, APC, in the South-east has come hard on the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, for warning that a revolution may be inevitable in Nigeria, should the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration refuse to soften its ongoing stringent economic policies and style of governance.
Ekweremadu was recently reported to have warned during a recent South-east Peoples Democratic party, PDP, zonal executive committee meeting in Enugu, that unless the APC-led government does something urgent about the present harsh economy, the present trend may cause a revolution in the country.
But the South-east APC, in a statement signed on Friday by its Publicity Secretary, Hon. Hycienth Ngwu, and made available to newsmen in Enugu, described the Deputy Senate President’s comments as inciting, stressing that they were uncalled for.
The statement shows Hon. Ngwu as replacing the self-acclaimed South East Publicity Secretary of APC, Mr Osita Okechukwu.
The Zonal APC Publicity Secretary wrote: “I read with utmost displeasure the advice to President Muhammadu Buhari on how to manage the Nigerian economy and the attendant repercussion should the President fails to heed the advice, credited to the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.
“I am in doubt whether these statements were actually said by the Deputy Senate President. But if actually he did say them, I would take it that those statements should be discounted as disinformation and political propaganda aimed at drawing attention away from the fact of the matter at hand.
“The facts are that the Nigerian economy was in coma prior to May 29th 2015, the day Muhammadu Buhari was sworn-in as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Today, the economy is regaining consciousness and would soon be healthy enough to correct the acute structural imbalances caused to it by the mismanagement of our common resources by the People’s Democratic Party’s leadership from 1999 to May 29th 2015,” he stated.
