Less than 36 hours after the All Progressives Congress(APC) caucus in the Senate sacked Senator Ali Ndume as Majority Leader and replaced him with Senator Ahmed Lawan, there are reports of a plot by the lawmakers to reclaim the seat of the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu of the minority Peoples Democratic Party(PDP). This news filtered in on Wednesday at the red chamber when two members of the caucus specifically called on Ekweremadu to defect to the APC during the session.
Senator Kabir Marafa (Zamfara Central), a prominent member of the pro-Lawan Senate Unity Forum, the group within the APC caucus loyal to the ruling party, hinted this on Tuesday that Ekweremadu should defect to the APC to retain his post as Deputy Senate President while stating that the position of the Deputy Senate President belonged to the party with the majority. Marafa said the national leadership of the APC had written to Saraki, asking him to cede four positions – Deputy Senate President, Senate Leader, Chief Whip and Deputy Chief Whip – in the Senate to the SUF members loyal to the party. All these positions, except the Deputy Senate President, are currently occupied by the APC lawmakers.
At the plenary on Wednesday, Marafa, while moving a motion for the adoption of the Votes and Proceedings of Tuesday’s plenary, urged Ekweremadu, who presided over the session, to defect to the APC. Seconding the motion, Senator Abdullahi Adamu (APC, Nasarawa West), similarly called on the Deputy Senate President to join the APC. Meanwhile the Special Adviser to the Deputy President of the Senate, Mr. Uche Anichukwu, when contacted on the telephone on Wednesday night, said, “My boss remains a bonafide and committed member of the PDP.”
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