BY JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU

ABUJA—SENATE President, Senator David Mark, has denied the allegation that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, entered into agreement to cede some senatorial and House of Representatives’ seats to opposition parties, especially in Anambra State, in the forthcoming 2015 general elections.

Senator Mark in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Paul Mumeh, stated:  “There is no such deal with any opposition party anywhere.  Nobody should deceive you into believing that PDP has an agreement with any opposition party. PDP has a manifesto and only elected PDP candidates can implement it.”

The Senate President, who alongside the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, addressed PDP stakeholders in Anambra State at Nteje, Oyi local government area, debunked insinuations that PDP had entered into a pact to trade National Assembly seats in the state with the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in an alleged accord to get the party’s support for 2015.

It was widely rumoured that the National Assembly seats, including Anambra North senatorial seat, currently occupied by Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Margery Chuba-Okadigbo, had been negotiated out to APGA for 2015.

But Senator Mark, a member of the PDP National Executive Committee, NEC, and Board of Trustees, BOT, said:   “Nobody has negotiated out any position to any opposition party.  I am not aware of it and I am not a party to it. PDP is steady and stable. We have no need for that.”