The
absence of Senate President David Mark from Thursday’s Senate plenary,
stalled the defection of 11 aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party
senators to the All Progressives Congress.
The aggrieved senators had written to Mark informing him about their decision to leave the PDP for the APC.
But during Wednesday’s plenary, neither
the Senate President nor the 11 senators made reference to the letter,
which ought to have been read on the floor of the Senate.
But during plenary on Thursday, the
Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, who presided over session, did
not read the letter.
He said Mark had told him that he had
scheduled a meeting with the aggrieved senators whenever he returned
from his official trip to Jigawa State.
However, the APC said this development
was a pointer to the fact that the Senate leadership wanted to stall the
defection. This attempt, the APC said, would fail.
Interim National Publicity Secretary of
the Party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this in a telephone interview with
one of our correspondents.
Mohammed said, “Even though the Deputy
Senate President was there, they refused to read the letter. It is one
of two things; it is either they are trying to go to court or they are
trying to woo these people back. Either way, they are going to fail.”
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