PDP accuses APC of deliberately causing rancour in the Senate

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has been told that it lacks the moral rights to question the emergence of Senator Ike Ekweremadu as the Deputy Senate President.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, which stated this in reaction to a comment credited to the National Chairman of the APC that it was difficult for the party to accept the emergence of a person as deputy president of the senate, stressed that “The APC has no constitutional or moral grounds to be displeased with Ekweremadu’s emergence‎.”

The APC National Chairman was quoted to have said, “I think the thing that rankled us most was the election of Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President.

“Saraki is a member of the APC, much as the main line ‎of the Party would have wished a different result and a different scenario. But we all find it very, very difficult to accept the emergence of a PDP person as his deputy.”

But the PDP reacted through a statement issued by the spokesman of its National Caretaker Committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye on Tuesday, stressing that Odigie-Oyegun’s statement shows clearly that the rumpus in the Senate, including the incessant torment of senate leadership and the recent arraignment of its presiding officers on phantom criminal charges of conspiracy and forgery.

The statement reads, “We, however, want to make it clear that the APC has no constitutional or moral grounds to be displeased with Ekweremadu’s emergence or to go this ridiculous length to harass, intimidate, embarrass, and malign him and the institution of the Senate on account of a position to which his colleagues, cutting across party lines, elected him in a transparent and televised election in line with Section 50 of the 1999 Constitution as amended.

“Even the APC as a party and through its chieftains, including President Muhammadu Buhari (before his election), had variously and robustly defended the constitutionality and imperativeness of bi-partisan legislative leadership during the defection of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal to its fold while in opposition without relinquishing his position,” the opposition party recalled.