The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has explained that the 35 years age qualification for the Senate was retained in the Not-Too-Young-To-Run bill to correct the initial disparity in the 1999 Constitution between the age qualification for…
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; and the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, have urged Muslims to pray for Nigeria as the Ramadan, an annual 30-day fast, begins. This was just as a cleric, Chief Imam Abdulwaheed Abubakar, thanked God…
Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu has called for concerted efforts by his colleagues to bring to an end the spate of incessant killings across the country. Addressing senators during plenary yesterday, Ekweremadu said there must be a way of stopping…
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, on Tuesday challenged the proposed seizure of some of his properties by the federal government. The government had on March 21, 2018, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja for an interim order for…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo has flayed the alleged attempt by the Federal Government to discredit the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, through unwarranted inquisition into his life and person, when no prima facie case had been established to prove that he embezzled…
Deputy Senate President, Dr. Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday alleged that the presidential committee headed by Okoi Obla to recover his assets is an attempt by the All Progressives Congress(APC) to intimidate him. Ekweremadu spoke in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital during…
The federal government wednesday approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, for an order to temporarily freeze properties and assets linked to the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu. The suit which was filed on behalf of the federal government…
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).…
Senate President Bukola Saraki is using his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, to carry out assignments which would have been considered ‘too controversial or dirty’ if he had carried them out himself, the senator representing Nasarawa west in the National Assembly, Abdullahi…
Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, on Wednesday, said the country’s democracy is receding and it is not unlikely for the military to take over. Ekweremadu said this while contributing to a debate on a motion sponsored by Ahmed Ogembe, senator…