Senator Ike Ekweremadu Advocates Negotiation With The North For Igbo Presidency

ABUJA: A Former Deputy President of the Senate, Dr. Ike Ekweremadu, has said something regarding calls for surrendering the official tickets of the major ideological groups toward the South East, saying while it is conceivable to have a leader of Igbo extraction in 2023, the zone must connect with the northern piece of the nation in exchange. 

This was as he entrusted the Federal Government on the need to regress capacity to the states, saying with the expanding wave of uncertainty just as genuine monetary difficulties, it has gotten convenient to so do. 

Ekweremadu, who actually speaks to Enugu West Senatorial District, offered the guidance on Wednesday in Abuja at a book introduction named: 'Pitch: Debunking Marketing's Strongest Myths', composed by brands specialist, Ikem Okuhu. 

As indicated by him, "there is racket for Igbo administration today. What's more, I trust it must be acknowledged whether we draw in ourselves in discussion with northern Nigeria to become tied up with our drive". 

The congressperson likewise pooh-poohed the Federal Government over the current financial plunge and expanding instances of banditry just as capturing, blaming it for energetically acting musically challenged to the various all around considered arrangements being proffered by enthusiastic Nigerians. 

He mourned that vote based system which should be a people-focused model of government has been so perverted by certain lawmakers who will in general separation themselves from the individuals whenever they are chosen into workplaces. 

"Today, Nigeria is in the full hold of far reaching instability uprising, banditry, kidnappings, equipped theft, and all way of savage wrongdoings. Nigerians have been offering arrangements towards restraining the rising influx of culpability. 

"These incorporate calls for decentralized policing, which I am an advocate of and furthermore have a Bill with that impact as of now before the Senate. 

"Tragically, it shows up the public authority is set on doing likewise again and again yet incidentally planning to get an alternate outcome. 

"In a similar way, numerous Nigerians, including yours truly, have been yelling it on the housetops well before the current monetary slump occasioned by intense and extended decrease in oil incomes, that the times of high oil incomes were numbered. 

"The West and other created countries are setting focuses to move away from oil. However we are off by a long shot to enacting other plentiful kinds of revenue on the grounds that our federalism is wired for abundance sharing instead of abundance creation. 

"Indeed, even in the seventh National Assembly when we tuned in to the desires of Nigerians to alter the constitution to decline aeronautics, power, railroad, and so forth from the Exclusive List to the Concurrent List, it was never consented by the Presidency. 

"Since the chicken has raised some ruckus, let us trust that the Federal Government will tune in to the voices of reason, regress powers, and not proceed with the micromanagement of the country's assets", he expressed. 

On building public union, Ekweremadu stated: "Nigeria is currently partitioned as at no other time. The gaps are expanding continuously. Senior legislators and ladies, scholars, and other benevolent Nigerians have kept on raising the caution that the country is floating separated. 

"They have similarly kept on proffering recommendations on how we can cause public attachment, equity, and value. We will keep on supplicating that the public authority regards their enthusiastic calls and recommendations." 

While he required the extension of the extent of the submission in the 1999 Constitution and utilization of formal review in the apportionment cycle, Ekweremadu likewise suggested the Enugu State Government's Visit Every Community (VEC) and One Community One Project (OCOP) just as Enugu West Peoples Parliament as commendable models for inducing responsibility and individuals driven turn of events.