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The mystery continues as Ekweremadu, Lawan disagree over actual number of APC, PDP senators

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Sitting arrangement causes rowdy session in Senate

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and Senate Majority Leader, Ahmad Lawan, Thursday argued over the party with the highest number of senators.

Lawan had raised a point of order, calling the attention of his colleagues to a media report which he claimed misquoted the number of lawmakers in the senate.

He said the report “erroneously” stated that senators in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are higher than those in the All Progressives Congress (APC).

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“A newspaper reported that APC senators are 57 while PDP senators are 58. For the record, APC senators are 56 and PDP senators are 46,” he said.

The senator said he made the observation so that the public will not be misled.

But Ekweremadu, who was presiding over the session, told him his figure does not exist.

“There is no such statistics for now. No such records,” the deputy senate president said.

Following defections involving both parties, the debate about the actual number of senators in each party has raged on.

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