Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 took a swipe at the All Progressives Congress (APC), asking them to stop playing politics after election and focus on governance as that is what Nigerians is expecting of the new government.
Speaking while hosting a coalition of election observers, Ekweremadu, who was apparently referring to a statement credited to President Muhammadu Buhari saying his (Ekweremadu’s) election was unacceptable, Ekweremadu said the President ought to respect the sanctity of the ballot, asking the APC to borrow a leaf from former President Goodluck Jonathan who conceded defeat after the 2015 presidential elections were announced.
He said: “We are about to form legislative agenda for the 8th Senate. This will include electoral reforms.
“As I said in the beginning, we have finished with politics, what is remaining now is governance and this country belongs to all of us and the constituents are not interested in whether you are APC or PDP.
“What they want is good governance and we must unite as a people to give Nigeria good governance. The issue of bickering and differences does not have any place in the minds of our people. What they want is performance, what they want to see is good governance and we must unite.”
