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APC made PDP’s Ekweremadu Dep Senate President, not me, Saraki says
Senate President, Bukola Saraki has argued that Senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are to blame for Ike Ekweremadu’s emergence as Deputy Senate President, and not himself.
According to him, he never made any deal with the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to have Ekweremadu emerge as deputy senate president.
It would be recalled that Saraki and Ekweremadu emerged as Senate President and Deputy Senate President respectively in an election that was regarded as controversial by many.
Their emergence set off a face off between the APC leadership and supporters of Saraki who felt he had sold the birthright of the party by allowing a member of the opposition pick such a seat in their government.
However, Saraki in a series of tweets on Monday in response ”tis question in that regards contended that the APC lawmakers who abandoned the chambers on the day of the election for another meeting were to blame for the outcome of the election.
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He said, “I did not do any deal with PDP . I did not have to because even before they took group decision, 22 or them already endorsed me.
“I didn’t envisage some APC members being absent from Senate especially when the clerk already received a proclamation from the President.
“If a team refused to turn up for a scheduled match and was consequently walked over, would it be fair to blame the team that turned up?”, he asked.
According to him, a Proclamation is an official announcement dealing with a matter of great importance. To delay equals the National Assembly disobeying the President.
Saraki explained further, that another proclamation would have been needed if the process was to have been delayed, changing the date and time, adding, that “Proclamation not same as press statement or open invitation.
“Those that made it possible for PDP to claim DSP position were those who decided to hold a meeting when senators ought to be in the chambers”, he argued.
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Balarabe musa
May 1, 2017 at 3:06 pm
The beginning of Senate woes is the stern inclusion of pdp senators in the principal offices of the Senate especially Ikeremadu, well, that’s gone already but such mistakes won’t repeat itself next election.
Agbor Chris
May 1, 2017 at 3:17 pm
The house will always remain unsettled, PDP is an opposition party, how can an opposition member have key post in the house and they expect peace? Well, I’m enjoying all the dramas in the house, just that Nigerians are the once suffering it
seyi jelili
May 1, 2017 at 8:05 pm
What you fail to realise is that, these senators don’t relate to one another with party differences, they are all one as they are brainstorming together on how to share money. So forget what you think.
JOHNSON PETER
May 2, 2017 at 2:05 am
Don’t mind them and let them continuing muttering rubbish. No cleavages in Senate toward party inclination when it comes to their cunning plans of getting money, they work as team. Their own is how to enrich themselves at the expense of common Nigerians.
Joy Madu
May 2, 2017 at 2:15 am
True talk because they don’t care about others but to enrich themselves selfishly
yanju omotodun
May 2, 2017 at 2:12 am
That’s if apc won election majorly in the Senate and there is no assurance of that yet. So don’t say it won’t repeat itself.
Animashaun Ayodeji
May 1, 2017 at 3:12 pm
What else will Saraki say? It’s expected of him not to admit he had a deal with PDP for making Ekweremadu to be the house’s Deputy Senate President.
Anita Kingsley
May 1, 2017 at 3:21 pm
Saraki won’t stoop so low to have an agreement with PDP to have Ekweremadu as his deputy. It was an election and majority of the senators, including APC’s senators chose Ekweremadu. It has nothing to do with Saraki. It is not an executive election that you know your Vice before the Election Day.
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