APC Senators Now Returning To PDP – Ekweremadu
Ike Ekweremadu, Deputy Senate President of Nigeria[/caption]
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has said that stalwarts of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the senate, are now returning to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after realising how mistaken they were for voting the party (APC) into power.
Ekweremadu made the statement when the Board of Trustees of the PDP, paid a solidarity visit to the PDP Senate Caucus at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja.
He said: “Today, I believe and I am speaking the minds of my colleagues, that so many members of the National Assembly from the other parties are prepared to return to the PDP because they have seen that they made a mistake in the last election by voting APC and they are also seeing that PDP remains the biggest, greatest and the most focused party in Nigeria.”
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Speaking during the visit, leader of the delegation and Chairman of the PDP BoT, Senator Walid Jibril had condemned the ongoing trial of Ekweremadu, over alleged forgery of Senate Rules as a frame-up, saying it was a deliberate plot to tarnish his person.
According to him, as fathers and conscience of the party, the BOT could not sit and watch the framing-up of the Deputy Senate President on trumped-up charges of forgery.
Senator Jibril said: “We are here to show solidarity and recognise the leadership of Senator Ekweremadu, especially when we hear stories of what is happening to him. We are here to give our total support to him over the recent framing of him in an alleged forgery case, because we cannot, as fathers and conscience of the party, sit down and just watch.
“Senator Ekweremadu is a man of integrity with a high record of performance. We want to advise strongly that nobody should try to tarnish his personality and we are strongly calling for fair hearing and justice in the attempt to rope-in Senator Ekweremadu for political reasons.
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“He was elected Deputy President of Senate by 48 PDP senators with the support of APC Senators, which is a good ingredient of our democracy. No attempt should be made to rope him in. He should be left alone to continue the good service to the country”.
On his part, member of the BoT and former President of the Senate, Adolphus Wabara said, “I speak as a victim of executive interference in the legislature. During our own time, there was not the kind of unity being exhibited by the Senators today. I want to commend and salute you all for that. The last time the two Presiding Officers went to court, as I watched on television, I was moved to tears. The court was on vacation, and no one had the courtesy of informing them before hand.
“The time they would have used to attend to the nation’s task, was wasted, going to court. It is high time the executive realizes that the era of executive interference was over,” Wabara added.
