Ike Ekweremadu, The Deputy President of the Senate, has expressed
his commitment to the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party and its
presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the forthcoming general
elections. Towards this end, Ekweremadu, on Monday, said he had held separate
meetings with the vice-presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi,
and South-East governors on how to achieve victory at the polls.
The senator, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Uche
Anichukwu, denied reports the PDP was divided ahead of the presidential
election.
He said, “I have held separate meetings with Peter Obi and the
Chairman, South-East Governors’ Forum, Dave Umahi, with a view to
working out strategies for the success of our party and our candidates
in the elections.
“We will also organise a meeting of the South-East PDP stakeholders at the weekend.
“I have no doubt that South-East leaders will deliver the
region overwhelmingly to the PDP and I expect that other leaders will
also do the same in their geopolitical zones.
“After the PDP lost the presidency and its majority status at
the National Assembly in 2015, I made it clear that I would stand by the
party, no matter what.
“It took other party stakeholders and I a lot of efforts,
sacrifices, soul-searching and painstaking negotiations to hold the
party together and rebuild it.
“If I did not abandon the PDP at its darkest hour, it does not
make the slightest sense to say that I abandoned it now that its sun is
rising again.”