Dr Bukola Saraki, the Senate President, has affirmed that the house of the Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu is under siege as initially reported.
Saraki at the Tuesday’s plenary said, ‘As you know the seat of the DSP, Ike Ekweremadu is absent. He cannot get out of his house. He is being held under seige.”
Senator Ike Ekweremadu, had earlier lamented that the Nigeria
Police and the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission had laid siege to his home.
A statement by Uche Anichukwu his Special Adviser on Media, said,
“The
Apo Legislative Quarters residence of the Deputy President of the
Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, is currently under the siege of men of
the Nigeria Police Force and the operatives of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission.
“With the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, expected
to report to the Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force
in Guzappe, Abuja, this Tuesday morning, Senator Ekweremadu is expected
to preside over plenary.
“They took over the entire vicinity before 6am. There is no going in or coming out.
“Meanwhile, there was no prior invitation to the senator by any of the security agencies or the EFCC.”