Leader of South East Caucus in
the National Assembly and Chairman, Senate Committee on Power, Sen. Enyinnaya
Abaribe, has revealed how they were able to stop the impeachment of Ike
Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President.
Abaribe, who spoke at the public
presentation of the report of the implementation of the 2017 capital budget of
the Federal Government in the South East, in Enugu, yesterday, said he rejected
overtures made to him severally to replace Ekweremadu as the number two in the
Senate, but he turned it down.
“South East senators are united;
that’s why your son (Ekweremadu) has remained as Deputy Senate President. They
had approached me severally, to say ‘is he the only one that should be there.
But I know we have unity of purpose; we’re united as South East senators,” he
said.
He blamed the unending fight
between the Executive and the Legislature for the poor implementation of annual
budgets over the years, especially on the issue of zonal intervention projects.
Former Economic Adviser to the President
and Director General of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University
of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Prof. Osita Ogbu, applauded the governors for making
out time to talk about development, instead of politics.
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