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Reports have it that security agencies are laying siege on the homes of Senate President Bukola Saraki and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu in Abuja.
It is suspected that the move is a ploy to prevent them from making it to the National Assembly today because of an alleged plan by many lawmakers to decamp en masse from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The police on Monday asked Saraki to appear at police force headquarters in Abuja by 8am to answer questions over his reported links to the suspects arrested in connection to the Offa bank robbery in April.
Senator Ekweremadu on the other hand had no prior police invitation, so there is no official reason for blocking his home.
The planned cross carpeting, if allowed to take place, would render the APC a minority party before the end of Tuesday, a fact attested to by the Peoples Democratic Party leader in the House of Representatives on Monday.
Saraki or Ekweremadu have to be at the Senate to preside over whatever happens.
Some of the security officers said to be present at Ekweremadu’s residence at Apo Legislative Quarters were those from the State Security Service and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
A spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, said he could not immediately speak about the role of his agency in the siege.
“I will get back to you,” Premium Times quoted him as saying over the telephone shortly before 9:00 a.m. Tuesday.
Recall that Ekweremadu was previously investigated and arraigned by the police on allegations he forged Senate rules in June 2015 to pave way for the emergence of Saraki as Senate President against the dictates of the APC. Those charges were eventually dropped by the federal government.
He was also investigated on allegations of owing questionable properties abroad.