After a closed door meeting between the National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Senators elected on its platform, that started at 2. 20 pm and ended at past 5pm, National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, says the time has come for Nigeria to be free from the shackles of financial and political slavery.
The reconciliatory meeting had in attendance members of the PDP National Working Committee, NWC and PDP Senators led by the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, PDP, Abia South l. Recall that the Senate had so far this year, approved $22.7bn, $5.53bn and N850bn on different occasions for the Buhari regime to fund the 2020 national budget.
Speaking with newsmen, in Abuja yesterday, Secondus said, “We are also worried about the continuous borrowing by the executive arm of Government if it continues like this, Nigerians would be feeling the pains on their neck and It will get to a point if we continue to borrow the way the executive arm is carrying on, it will be difficult to breath both politically and economically, so this must come to an end, there must be an end to borrowing. Those are the issues we have asked our senators to raise in the Senate.”
When asked whether the Senators should stage a walk out in case of any move to borrow more money, the PDP National Chairman said, “they know what to do.” Speaking generally about the meeting, Secondus said, “I think that for today’s meeting at the Senate in the National Assembly we came to interact with our senators, the PDP caucus. We held a very useful discussion on behalf of the leadership of the party. We tabled before the Senate caucus of PDP the issue of Electoral reforms which is also on our minds and the minds of Nigerians.” On the forthcoming Edo elections, Secondus said, “Edo election is ongoing, the processes have started yesterday was the three man’s delegate election. On the 19th is the congress proper.”
Also speaking on the meeting, Senator Abaribe said, “The chairman Uche Secondus has come to meet with the PDP caucus in the senate and we have had a very useful discussion about the happenings in the National Assembly and our role in the Senate and in the national Assembly and I can say that it was a very productive meeting.”
On the issue of Senators not being Carried along by the NWC, the Minority Leader said, ” All the matters that affect Senators were all discussed and satisfactorily resolved. And like I said, it is normal that there are disagreements between political parties and we can be very certain that these disagreements can easily be resolved when you understand each other and when you have meetings of this nature which we have done.”
On what they are taking him and what they have been promised, Abaribe said, “The senators are very happy and we are on the same page with the party. PDP us strong and PDP is united.” Africa Update gathered that at the meeting, the PDP National Chairman and other members of the NWC took time to plead with the Senators and pacify them not to be angry with the party, just as there were promises that henceforth, they would be carried along in all its ramifications. also gathered that the misunderstanding was not intentional and also not to ridicule the Senators who are very strong and major stakeholders
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