OF DEFECTIONS AND REALIGNMENTS IN THE SENATE : My Hands Are Tied ––Mark Tells PDP as APC Gets 52 Senators ... Olufamous

Not only is PDP now in minority in the House of Reps, the party is set to suffer the same fate in the Senate as 52 Senators have insisted that the court order restraining the senator leadership from declaring the seat of any one who decamps from PDP vacant must be respected.

With this move, the seats of people like Senator Nduma Egba, Senate Majority Leader, is threatened as PDP is heading towards the minority tag. hence, they have been pushing the Senate President, David Mark, to help them by declaring the seat of defectors vacant.

But David Mark shocked the PDP and its senators when he told them that his hands are tied...

This position was reached after the senators who are set to join APC wrote to Mark and noted with concern the threats by some private and public officials to declare their seats vacant if they dumped PDP for APC.

The Senate president, who is not willing to be dragged into the matter, was indifferent to the pressure from the PDP to dance to declare their seats vacant for cross-carpeting to the APC.

Do not “support any plan to cause any setback to the current political dispensation in Nigeria,” they warned.

Among the senators who signed the letter written to Mark were:

Chris Ngige, George Akume, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Magnus Abe, Wilson Ake, Mohammed Danjuma Goje and Alhassan Aisha Jummai.

Others are: Mohammed Ali Ndume, Ahmed Maccido, Kabidu Gaya, Prof. Olusola Adeyeye, Oluremi Tinubu and Solomon Ewuga.

Their letter read: “We hereby note that this is not the first experience in the Senate where some senators have moved to political parties of their choice as a result of one reason or the other, whereas, such has not caused any political tension or intimidation. It is our resolve that the Senate should maintain and sustain this principle and precedence. 

“Finally, we enjoin the leadership of the National Assembly to continue to accommodate all legislators irrespective of their views, believing that our country can only make progress when we tolerate, respect one another and the rule of law.”