The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has expressed deep worries over the widening of the nation’s fault lines, saying such was not healthy for the nation’s democracy and development.
Ekweremadu who stated this in his Democracy Day message to the nation and signed by his media adviser, Mr. Uche Anichukwu, maintained that whereas ethnicity and other diversities within Nigeria were healthy realities that should actually make the nation thick, the poor management of such diversities and their exploitation for political and other selfish advantages had continued to polarize the nation, thereby constituting a major stumbling block to her progress.
This was even as he tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the conduct of the remaining rerun elections in the country.
According to Ekweremadu, the 2015 general election was the most divisive in the nation’s history, lamenting lack of deliberate effort to soothe frayed nerves and wield the country together one year after. His words: “I congratulate fellow Nigerians who have made sacrifices to enthrone and also sustain the current democratic dispensation. Indeed, 17 years of uninterrupted democracy is a great achievement for a country that had never experienced anything close to it.”
