Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate
president, and Ahmad Lawan, senate majority leader, argued over the political
party with the highest number of senators, on Thursday.
Lawan had raised a point of
order, calling the attention of his colleagues to a media report which,
according to him, misquoted the number of lawmakers in the senate.
He said the report “erroneously”
stated that senators in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are higher than
those in the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“A newspaper reported that APC
senators are 57 while PDP senators are 58. For the record, APC senators are 56
and PDP senators are 46,” he said.
The senator said he made the
observation so as the public will not be misled regarding the issue.
But Ekweremadu, who was presiding
over the session, told him there is no such figure.
“There is no such statistics for
now. No such records,” the deputy senate president said.
In recent weeks, a number of
defections have been recorded in the upper legislative chamber, especially
between the APC and PDP.
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