The Senate minority leader made the comment while being interviewed in a programme on Channels Television.

Senator Abaribe says the present government has nothing to offer. Photo credit: @NGRSenate

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His words:

  “The party (Peoples Democratic Party) has its position and the position is very simple: this government has failed.

“You don’t have any other way of trying to cover it. You can say all the rhetoric, you make all the propaganda. You can go ahead and try to pull the wool over the eyes of the people but the #EndSARS protest showed a failure of this government.

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  “It is not that is just failing now. It has been failing all along and we have been continually pointed it out.”

Meanwhile, following the clamour from southeast leaders for an Igbo to be the next president, Senator Abaribe has insisted that the quest was non-negotiable in 2023.

The senator made this known on Wednesday, November 18, after the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) Imo state council gave him an award.

  The Senate minority leader argued that giving up the agitation would deepen the already existing pitiable condition and subject her people to second class citizens.

However, he urged the Igbos not to relent but to remain firm, resolute and undaunted in the face of legions of challenges.

In a related development, former Imo state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha was on Monday, November 16, urged to vie for the 2023 presidential ticket by a group, Igbos for Rochas Movement 2023 Presidency (IRM).

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During a visit to his home, IRM national coordinator Jeff Nwoha stated that the former governor's resume, after careful deliberations with other leaders, fits the presidency.

The group also posited that Okorocha was picked following his political background and philanthropic gestures.

While urging other intending aspirants from the zone to bury their ambition and join hands to make the president of Igbo extraction a reality, the group described Okorocha as a detribalised Nigerian.

The police in Cross River, on Wednesday, October 14, exposed a baby factory in Obot Udonna Village, Akampka local government area of the state.

Legit.ng understands that the security operatives worked on secret information which led them to the location where they rescused two pregnant ladies and three children.

Vanguard quotes the commissioner of police in the state, Abdulkadir Jimoh, as saying that he and his men got credible intelligence which they acted upon.

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The lady is accused of selling children at N500k each Credit: Vanguard

This led to the arrest of the operator of the 'baby factory', whose name was given as Imaobong Asuquo.

The commissioner further noted that Imaobong operated the baby factory in her home and sold a baby for N500,000 in collaboration with another suspect simply identified as Iquo.

“We got credible intelligence and we swung into action immediately in a covert operation at about 4am Wednesday and we busted a baby factory operated in the residence of one Imaobong Asuquo who sells baby’s for at least 500,000 naira.

“We also rescued three pregnant girls including two 19 year old and another 21 year old as well as two children (names withheld)aged 2 and 7 years.

“From the statement we got from one Solomon Christopher husband to one of the rescued pregnant women, we also discovered that three babies were sold for 500,000 naira each already.

“But we are working assiduously to make sure we get to the root of the matter and all involved apprehended and charged to Court to face justice, investigation is still ongoing as we speak,” Jimoh said.

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Legit.ng had reported earlier how a two-week-old baby boy was recently rescued by the police in Rivers state after he was sold for N1.3 million by her grandmother.

The police said the woman identified as Antonia Amos sold the child because his father is yet to pay her daughter's bride price.

According to reports, the grandmother was arrested after the father of the baby, Christian Duru, reported the case to the police.

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