The
National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has asked the
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, to call the bluff of the All
Progressives Congress senators who asked him to defect to their party in order
to retain his seat.
The
APC senators, who are in the majority in the Senate, had asked Ekweremadu to
defect from the PDP to the ruling party so that he could continue to have their
support.
The
majority senators said this after they had seamlessly removed the Senate
Majority Leader, Ali Ndume, and replaced him with Ahmed Lawan.
However,
the PDP asked Ekweremadu, who is the highest political office-holder from the
opposition party, not to dance to the tune of the APC senators.
The
PDP assured Ekweremadu that nothing would happen to him.
The
spokesperson for the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led Caretaker Committee of the PDP,
Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said this in a statement in Abuja on Thursday.
Adeyeye
said it was wrong for Senator Kabiru Marafa of the APC to have called on
Ekweremadu on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday to defect from the PDP to
the ruling APC.
Adeyeye
said the call on Ekweremadu was unconstitutional and undemocratic.
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