Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu has predicted the sudden dismembering of the All Progressive Congress (APC) saying this would give the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) a deserved advantage.
Ekweremadu said this on Thursday during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the National Institute for Legislative Studies and the University of Benin at the National Assembly.
He said: “We are not worried about the APC, for us that makes the game more interesting. Before we used to contend with several parties and now we just only have one party to contend with and it makes the matter much easier for us.
“You know in Nigerian politics, gang-up never works. So, they will split and they will still come back to us in PDP and we will welcome them.”
He commended the current political crisis in the ruling PDP and dismissed it as normal. He said with all big and complex political associations, the issue of misunderstanding was inevitable.
He said what was important for the party was the ability to mange those complex situations and then move on.
He expressed optimism that PDP will sooner than later overcome the current political crisis and move ahead to win the presidential elections come 2015.
“PDP is a big party and once you have a big party you are going to have a complex situation. It is the ability to mange those complex situation that will determine how far you can go in the future. So, we are hopeful that we are going to surmount them and work as a team to work towards 2015.”