Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has said it will only be a matter of time before members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) begin to show allegiance to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and return to beg to be accepted as PDP card carrying members.
He spoke on Thursday after the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on how to offer Post Graduate Diploma and Masters Degree programmes in legislative studies, parliamentary administration and legislative drafting between the National Institute for Legislative Studies and the University of Benin at the National Assembly.
“We are not worried about the APC, for us, that makes the game more interesting. Before, we used to contend with several parties and now we just have only one party to contend with and it makes the matter much easier for us, he said.
“You know in Nigerian politics, gang-up never works. So, they will split and they will still come back to us in PDP and we will welcome them.”
He described the ongoing political crisis in the ruling PDP as normal, as the issue of misunderstanding was inevitable.
He stated that what was important for the party was the ability to manage those complex situations and then move on.
“PDP is a big party and once you have a big party, you are going to have a complex situation. It is the ability to manage those complex situations that will determine how far you can go in the future. So, we are hopeful that we are going to surmount them and work as a team towards 2015.
Speaking further, he noted that just like any other organisation, “we have our challenges but for us, they are not insurmountable, and the convention is part of the process of dealing with what we consider to be the challenges; I don’t see anything as out of the ordinary.
“Once we put in place the new NWC, which we have to do by the end of this month, I’m very optimistic that PDP will again win the presidency in 2015.”
Ekweremadu who also reacted to a question on the current constitutional review by the National Assembly, said “As you are aware, the House and the Senate have passed their versions of the current amendment of the constitution, and as the tradition and the law requires, we are going to set up a conference committee that comprises members of both chambers.
“We are hoping that these committee will harmonise the position of the House and the Senate, in terms of what has been passed, and then we will have a single document representing the views of the Senate and the views of the House.”
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