Joseph Erunke
ABUJA — FOLLOWING the valedictory session
marking end of the 7th Senate, outgoing Senate
President, David Mark and his deputy, Ike
Ekweremadu, yesterday evening left the premises of
the National Assembly without the usual convoy of
vehicles.
Also, the two principal officers of the Red Chamber
were seen leaving the premises without their usual
retinue of aides. Instead, among the several vehicles
in their convoys, only a handful of three cars, believed
to be their personal cars, followed them outside.
The siren blaring vehicles and motorbikes, usually in
their convoys, which were missing as they drove out
separately, caught the attention of not just some
legislative staff but some of the National Assembly
workers who watched as they were moving out, after
the formal closing of the legislature.
Both senators who have been in the Senate for over
10 years, were re-elected in the 2015 general
elections to represent Benue South and Enugu West
senatorial districts respectively in the 8th Senate,
expected to begin session Tuesday, after formal
inauguration.
But their chances of retaining their previous positions,
which they have held in previous 6th and 7th Senate,
became untenable, following the colossal loss of their
party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the
opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, at the
general election.
As the inauguration is being awaited, the PDP
senators who will be at the Red Chamber are 49 while
their APC counterparts are 59 even as they lost one
senator, Ahmad Zannah, who was elected on their
party’s platform.
Mark and Ekweremadu have used their leadership
qualities to stabilize not only the Senate but also the
National Assembly in general, which was reputed for
having leadership crises resulting in serial
impeachment of principal officers.
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/mark-ekweremadu-leave-nass-premises-without-convoy-aides/

Good for them...i dont care.

what has a beginning must surely have an end. 1-1

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