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Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu
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The All
Progressives Congress (APC) has denied any involvement in the police
invitation of Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had on Sunday, July 5, 2015,
accused the APC of being behind the invitation adding that the ruling party was
not happy about Ekweremadu’s election into the post.
The Deputy Senate President was reportedly invited as part of
an investigation on an alleged forgery of Senate Rules on the election of
principal officers.
The APC made its comment on
Sunday in a statement issued by National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed.
It reads:
“However, if, as the PDP claims, the petition concerns alleged
altering of the Senate’s Standing Rules on the process of electing Presiding
Officers, that is a clear case of forgery which the police have a duty to
investigate. Questioning the right of the police to carry out their duties in
this regard amounts to intimidating the security agency.”
“Forgery is a crime that is being regularly investigated by the
police, and it beggars belief that such investigation will now be interpreted
to mean that Nigeria is descending into dictatorship or that democracy and the
enjoyment of personal freedoms are now endangered. These claims by the
scaremongering PDP are farfetched and
preposterous.”
“President Muhammadu Buhari has repeatedly said that at every
point, the law must be supreme and everyone must respect the law, if the
nation’s democratic system is to survive.”
“Extrapolating a police invitation of anyone, no matter his
status, to mean the onset of dictatorship is itself an invitation to
lawlessness and anarchy, which permeated the long but ineffective rule of the
PDP.”
Ekweremadu is expected to report at the Police Headquarters in
Abuja on Monday, July 6.
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