AA, ADC stepped down for Ize-Iyamu

Recession: Iwuanyanwu advises Buhari to replace ministers

Candidates of the Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD) and Action Alliance (AA) in the September 28 governorship election in Edo State, Andrew Igwemoh and Ishaka Paul Ofomile, respectively, have quit the race and adopted the candidate of the PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.

The duo made the declaration, yesterday, during a rally in Okpella, Etsako East Local Government Area of the state.

They said Ize-Iyamu was better prepared to govern the state.

Specifically, Ishaka Paul of the ACD, who hailed from the same community with Governor Adams Oshiomhole, said that it would have been easier for him to align with the governor and the APC, but the issue of who governs Edo State was not a “brotherly affair.” An elder statesman in Igbo land, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently replace some minsters with experienced personalities as part of steps to end recession in the country.

Iwuanyanwu said this yesterday in Owerri, shortly after he was presented with the 2016 Nelson Mandela Leadership Award by the African Youth Parliament, as an icon of hope to African Youths and Social Development.

He said unless Buhari replaced some of his ministers, economic recession will continue to drive away investors from Nigeria.

He said: “One of the approaches is to look at the people in the cabinet, adjust the posting and bring in people who are experienced, such as the former Minister for Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala.”

Describing Buhari as an honest person, Iwuanyanwu advised the president to also expand his economic team without delay, so as to get Nigeria out of the woods.

He recalled that both former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Good luck Jonathan, during their tenure, brought in Okonjo Iweala to rescue the nation when the economy was almost crashing.

Iwuanyanwu also urged Nigerians to stop blaming the president for Nigeria’s economic woes, stressing that the current recession rocking the country could have destabilize any government, irrespective of the person in power.

He appealed to Nigerians to rally round the president with ideas, instead of blaming him for the current economic situation.