Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweramadu has briefed the Presidency over the invasion of the Senate Chamber and stealing of the Mace by some hoodlums in the earlier hours of today, Wednesday and that the Presidency expressed sympathy to the Senate for the incident.
Speaking to news men shortly after a closed door meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Ekweremadu said that he had briefed the Vice President “because the President is not in town. It was appropriate for him to know what transpired because we run democracy. We are all in one government and it is the responsibility of the President or the Vice President to ensure the law and order in the country.
“Once we have this kind of major development, it is important that he is briefed at the earliest opportunity. The Senate President is out of the country, its therefore my responsibility to come over and brief the Vice President. He has sympathized with us over what happened and he is going to join forces with us to ensure that we get to the root of the matter to make sure that this will not happen again.
“For us it is a threat to our democracy. The invasion of the parliament is not acceptable to any person; it is not acceptable to me, it is not acceptable to the VP; it is not acceptable to my colleagues and I believe it is not also acceptable to the President, so those who acted this script must be on their own.
“All we need to do as a country is to ensure that this is forestalled and I want to appeal to the media to help us discourage this kind of brigandage so that people have to behave in a very responsible manner. “
Senator Ekweremadu gave assurance that Senator are on top of the situation, adding that they carried out sitting today and that they will continue tomorrow.
He however wondered what legal right Omo-Agege, who has been suspended, has to enter the chamber, stressing that it was a breach of the law for him to force himself into the chambers.
“As I said, police is still investigating. We are going to find out the details of those who aided him to come in and then some of them I believe have been arrested and we will get to the root of the matter.”
