Ekweremadu Cannot Continue As DSP - Buhari

The President has said today in a daily NTA morning programme, Good morning Nigeria that his party cannot allow the PDP to take over the government through the National Assembly. He insisted that they cannot win the battle and lose the war.

The APC has has been embroiled in supremacy battle as a result of 8th national Assembly election in which the party’s preferred candidate Ahmed Lawal lost to Bukola Saraki in which Senator Ekweremadu became his deputy in an alliance that was seen by the party as betrayal and outright disobedience. The same played out in the house of Representatives where the party’s candidate Rep. Gbajabiamila lost to Yakubu Dogara in the same manner of 'unholy' Alliance. Both house leaders have since flouted the directives of the party to adopt these two party candidates that lost elections be made the leader of the both chambers to allow peace rain.
The President made this assertion ahead of today's scheduled meeting between the warring factions in the house of Representatives by 6pm.
These are the ten notable things the President said from the program...
1. Buhari reveals that the Nigerian airforce is virtually non-existent. He said the airforce
needs to support ground troops.
2. He said our security challenge is not only in the northeast, but also in the Gulf of
Guinea where our crude oil is stolen through. He said the amount of crude oil being
stolen is mind-boggling.
3. Buhari explained that up to the 10th of this month, our crude oil was being stolen by
people in government. “We’re getting documents and support to trace it all. I doubt the
NNPC knows the total number of accounts being operated. Nigerians will be shocked
by how much has been stolen.”
4. He said it’s not an easy process to recover stolen funds deposited abroad by
unpatriotic citizens, but that his government will do its best.
5. He said fuel scarcity is due to non-maintenance of local refineries. “We’ll be on a
high moral ground when we restructure NNPC. All our refining and pipeline infrastructure
across the country have almost all been vandalised, can’t be fixed overnight.”
6. He revealed that virtually all storage infrastructure owned by government have been
vandalised and Nigeria is now forced to import petroleum products. “We have to work
with our partners to fix the infrastructure in the oil sector. But we are open to give
licenses to people.”
7. “Concerning appointment of ministers, we need honest, patriotic and knowledgeable
Nigerians to handle ministries. There is no point to give some people license to go to
international market and buy produce.”
8. “Before now, ministers have been working for themselves in an everybody for
himself, God for us all atmosphere of corruption. Appointments are taking time
because a number of knowledgeable people have been compromised. We cannot trust
compromised people to run our ministries or we will be back to square one.”
9. “We (APC) cannot win the battle and lose the war. We cannot allow the PDP to take
over the government through the Nat. Assembly. The only thing I can do is to appeal to
the conscience of APC members in the House and the Senate to not scuttle our plans.”
10. “It took us a while to get to where we (APC) are. The vicious cycle of corruption,
unemployment and insecurity has to be broken. Let us put our hands together to save
this country. No part of the country can do much on its own. Nigeria is one and has
come to stay
President Muhammadu Buhari also said that the  Americans are willing to help us and that the nation is grateful for making the elections peaceful.