Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has mocked
critics of the Gooduck Jonathan administration, saying they have lost
their voice under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.
Ekweremadu spoke at the weekend during the 30th Priesthood Ordination
anniversary of the Bishop of Nike Diocese, Church of Nigeria (Anglican
Communion), Rt. Revd. Evans Ibeagha, in Enugu.
In his lecture entitled ‘Social Contract Between Political Leaders
and Citizens: The Imperatives of Participatory Democracy for Nation
Building,’ the DSP represented by the Chairman, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Enugu
State Chapter, Hon. Alex Ogbonnia, called for more consistency among the
religious leaders, civil society, and others in checking government
policies, irrespective of the individual or party in power.
He said: “It is sad that many critics who led street protests against
policies of the last administration, such as the attempt to remove fuel
subsidy with elaborate palliative, made a volta face when fuel subsidy
was totally removed by the current administration without any iota of
palliatives for Nigerians.
“Those who criticised the last administration over what they termed
hardship in the land and high exchange rate of about N198 to USD1 have
suddenly gone mute when the real hardship is staring the nation in the
face, while exchange rate has more than doubled.
“But, if we are consistent in holding government accountable on
behalf of the people, then no government will feel so comfortable that
it will take the people for granted or run in exclusion of their ideas,
feelings, and inputs”.
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