PDP In Desperate Moves To Control Senate After Losing Reps

The aspiration by the All Progressives Congress to take control of the leadership of the National Assembly is to be resisted in the Senate. It emerged, on Wednesday, that the Senate leadership could take unconstitutional actions by declaring the seats of defecting Senators vacant. But they are scare of the courts.

While the APC has already taken the ascendancy in the House of Representatives with its members set to take over the control of the House this January, the scenario in the Senate, is not going to easy as the Presidency is pleading with the Senate President, David Mark, to take certain actions to save the PDP.

The issues between Senator Mark and President Goodluck Jonathan arising from federal appointments from his home state, Benue, and the supremacy battle between the Senate President and Governor Gabriel Suswam, may likely affect the PDP. But Mark is also aware of the fact that safeguarding the dominance of the PDP in the Senate is a way of keeping his own position.

22 senators and 57 Reps had last December obtained a court order stopping the Speaker Aminu Tambuwal and Senator Mark from declaring the seats of members of the then New PDP vacant should they choose to change parties on the floor of the two chambers of the National Assembly.

Presently, the PDP has 72 senators while the APC has 33 with Labour Party but with the planned defection, the PDP will be thrown become the minority in the Senate too, hence the desperation.