The Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has invited Mr. Ekweremadu to report at the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Monday(today) over forgery of Senate rules.
According to the APC, the rules used for the election of both Senator Bukola Saraki as senate president and Ike Ekweremadu as deputy senate president were forged.
The extant rules at the end of the 7th Senate early in June, this year clearly spelt out that the election of the principal officers shall be by open ballot. This was the rule senators adopted in 2011 and remained till the end of the life of the 7th Senate.
The PDP spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, who addressed a press conference on Sunday in Abuja after said this was a plot to arrest and detain the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.
Mr. Metuh said the APC leadership is not happy with the emergence of Mr. Ekweremadu, a PDP member, as the Deputy Senate President and that after several attempts to make him resign, has now resorted to underhand tactics.
He said since President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that Mr. Ekweremadu’s election was ‘unacceptable’ to his party, the Deputy Senate President, who can only be removed by the Senate, has come under threats and intense pressure from APC leaders to resign and allow a senator from the ruling party to take his position.
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