Deputy Senate
President, Ike Ekweremadu, has been told in clear terms that he risks losing
his coveted seat unless he defects from his party to the ruling All
Progressives
Congress (APC).
Ekweremadu was
elected into that office in 2015 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP).
The Daily Sun
gathered that APC Senators, predominantly those in the Unity Forum, are making
a daring move to wrest power from Ekweremadu.
It was learnt that
some APC Senators are already scheming to battle Ekweremadu, if the current
efforts to convince the Deputy Senate President to defect to the ruling APC do
not materialise.
Giving an insight
into the scheming against Ekweremadu, Senator Kabir Marafa, a formidable member
of the Unity Forum, told The Daily Sun that if the Deputy Senate President
defects to APC, there might be no need to make a move for his seat.
Marafa insisted that
Ekweremadu’s continuous stay in office was depriving the APC of what rightly
belongs to it.
In the words of Sen.
Marafa, “Let me call the Deputy President of the Senate, Ekweremadu to defect
to APC. If he defects, it will seal everything and there will not be any
problems again. Ekweremadu’s seat is the only one we are contesting. That seat
belongs to us in the APC. He came from the PDP to take the seat.
“If he just accepts
and defects to APC, everything will be fine. Instead of moving against his
seat, let him join us now. Tell him to join APC. When he refuses to join APC,
you can then come back here and ask me what to do next. He has the golden opportunity
to join us. The constitution says that when there is crisis in a party, anybody
can defect. As a person, I do not want to move against Ekweremadu’s seat,” Sen.
Marafa said.
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