Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Deputy Senate President, representing Enugu West senatorial district, is the leader of Ndigbo in People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the leading opposition party in Nigeria. That is why the raid on his Abuja guest house by Special Squad of the Inspector-General of Police last Friday where he claimed nothing was found has generated lot of reactions.

A school of thought described the raid as part of the plan of the ruling APC to gag opposition in the country. Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation described it as an attempt to silence opposition in the country.

He said, “It is about time Nigerians woke up and stood up to their madness and tyranny. We must employ all lawful means to resist them and expose them for what they are. Ekweremadu made history in 2015 as the first senator to be elected deputy senate president from the opposition party.

His emergence was made possible by the internal wrangling in the APC, over who should occupy the principal positions in both chambers. Since the emergence of Ekweremadu who is one of the longest serving senator, the ruling party has made every effort to unseat him.But this has not been posssible due to the determination of members to guide against external influence.

Recently,Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, who is also the chairman of Progressives Governors’ Forum , at the meeting of the APC governors in Abuja, revealed the plan of the party to ensure that Ekweremadu vacates the position of Deputy Senate President,which, in the history of Nigeria democracy, has been occupied by the ruling party.

Okorocha was scheming for Senator Benjamin Uwajumogu, who then won the Imo North senatorial election on the platform of APC to take over from Ekweremadu. He said, “The position of Senator Ike Ekweremadu as the Deputy Senate President is at the moment under heavy threat, because in no distant time, the APC Senator in-waiting from Imo State, Benjamin Uwajumogu, will take over the seat on the grounds that it is an aberration that a PDP senator from the South-East is deputy to an APC Senate President because, before now, the APC could not produce a senator from the South-East zone”.

Chief Ekweremadu, in 2002, was appointed Secretary to the Enugu State Government. Before then he was Chairman of Aninri in 1997 and won the Best Local Government Chairman, Award in Enugu State. He was appointed the Chief of Staff of the Enugu State Government House before his election into the senate in 2003.

http://www.statereporters.com/2017/05/31/storm-not-yet-over-for-senator-ekweremadu-see-why/

K. Hope he came to equity with clean hands?

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Ekweremadu is fully aware that he's dining with de devils, for this obvious reason he's always ever ready, APC should trade with caution when dealing with this guy, he is like a boil in de anus to APC, they should understand that this guy is a smart politician, I think even more smart that Saraki