By Sufuyan Ojeifo
Since emerging as deputy senate president in 2015, despite being a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ike Ekweremadu has been a subject of both subtle and brazen attacks by entrenched interests in the All Progressives Congress (APC).
They see him as a usurper of the conventional privileges of presiding officers that the APC, as the ruling party, should have maximized by producing both the senate president and the deputy senate president.
Ekweremadu has been deputy senate president since 2007. He was deputy to former senate president, David Mark, for eight years until 2015 when the PDP lost its majority in the National Assembly to the APC. When that happened, there was celebration in the camp of the APC because the leadership of the federal legislature was believed to be right in its kitty.
But in a riveting jigsaw nature of…
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