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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
Four suspected members of the gang that
attacked two commercial banks in Ikorodu, Lagos State, relived yesterday their
bloody exploits, claiming responsibility for other bank robberies.
Early reports suggested at least seven of the casualties had been
killed. “One of the bombs became stuck because of a technical problem, and
during its [the aircraft’s] return to base it fell on three houses in Baghdad
Jadida,” security spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan said in a statement.
The jet was coming back from a bombing run when the accident occurred, Maan
said, according to the AFP news agency.
