Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has said that the National Conference could help to reposition the country if it was well handled by the delegates, and assured of the federal legislature’s support for the confab.
Senator Ekweremadu spoke yesterday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport before joining the President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, to the groundbreaking ceremony for the Second Niger Bridge in Onitsha, Anambra state.
He said: “The National Conference is something that I believe will reposition this country if handled well. I want to appeal to participants to approach it from the point of view of patriots, not just as individuals representing their various states, ethnic groups, political parties, ethnic groups or professional bodies.
“They should think as Nigerians and about what we have to do to ensure the stability and progress of the nation and ensure that we bequeath a nation that our children will be proud of.”
Expressing the National Assembly’s readiness to support the exercise, he said: “Ultimately, their decisions will come to the National Assembly for legislation and I have no doubt that the National Assembly will support the final outcome because it is the wish of Nigerians.”
On the Second Niger Bridge, Senator Ekweremadu said: “For me, this is very cheering news; it is a good music to my ears. Not just to me as a person, but to the people of the South East, Nigeria, and indeed the entire West Africa. We are excited that at last, this bridge will be constructed.
“We have been working on it. We have been hoping that a day like this would come when there would be true commitment to constructing the Second Niger Bridge.
“Previously, it had been excuses upon excuses, but finally, we have a President who is committed to doing this job and I want to commend and appeal to him too that this commitment should be sustained.”
