Nigeria’s Senate Deputy President, Ike Ekweremadu who addressed his constituents who converged to beg him to return to the Senate in 2019, revealed that he gave the All Progressives Congress, APC, N5m in 2014.
Ike Ekweremadu who addressed his constituents who presented him the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, expression of interest and nomination form worth N3m at his Enugu residence, the Senate Deputy President said the beauty of democracy was allowing the opposition to thrive.
The Senate Deputy President whose constituents, said has no alternative at the moment as he has impacted on their lives so much, said as an apostle of true democracy he gave the APC N5m at its formative stage in 2014 when it had financial challenges in Enugu State.
According to him, the party had issue of funds for its membership registration and that “when they approached me, I gave them N5m. Chris Ngige can bear me witness.”
