KATAKATA IN SENATE:APC Senators will not be part of the senate that Ekweremadu is Presiding.

New Crisis Erupts In Senate

The senators under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are really angry with Ike Ekweremadu, deputy Senate president.

Some of the senators staged a walkout to protest of the ascension of Ekweremadu when the Senate president Bukola Saraki attended the swearing-in ceremony of new ministers at the Aso Rock villa.

APC senators stated that they would not sit and watch a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chair the APC majority-controlled chamber.

They pledged not to attend any plenary session presided over by deputy Senate president.

After the session, Suleiman Kunkuyi (Kaduna North), released a statement, promising that senators from the ruling party would reject any further attempt to permit a member of the minority party supervise over their sittings.

The statement reads in part: “In equal stance, we notice with grave sadness, the handover of the hallowed chamber of the Senate today (yesterday) to the opposition party, the PDP, by the Senate President to Ike Ekweremadu as the PDP helmsman to preside over the majority membership of the APC-led chamber.

“It is a very sad development that must be denounced by all well meaning APC members and leaders alike. With this, to show our protest as APC senators of the eight Senate, we wish to announce that we shall seize (sic) to attend any seating (sic) presided over by the PDP in an APC majority chamber of the eight Senate.”

Another senator who wants to be anonymous told reporters that his colleagues would repel the next attempt by Ekweremadu to chair the session by massively boycotting the plenary.

APC senators who walked out on Wednesday comprised the Chief Whip, Senators Sola Adeyeye, Abu Ibrahim, Oluremi  Tinubu, Suleiman Kunkuyi, among others. Notwithstanding, the plenary continued as many other APC senators, comprising the Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, his deputy, Bala Ibn Na’Allah; Kabiru  Gaya , Binta Masi Garba, Shehu Sani among others remained in the chamber while Ekweremadu presided.