The Deputy President of the Senate, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, has called for parliamentary system of government in the country, saying that the current presidential system is too expensive and cumbersome.

DEPUTY Senate President  Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday, donated gift items worth millions of naira to Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camps in Gombe State, during the Christmas holiday.

We know very well that the toad does not run in the daytime for nothing; if it is not after something, then something must be after it. Although Nigeria is not new to agitations of all kinds, the nation has of recent been caught in a cacophony of agitations by different groups and sections of the country. In particular, these agitations have been most pronounced in the South-east, where the activities of various pro-Biafra groups have been most prominent. There have also been loud and well-meaning voices in the South-east and all over the country strongly canvassing a restructuring of the country.

Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Enugu state has warned that Ndigbo will not seat aloof to watch the deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, humiliated for unsubstantiated reason.

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, yesterday, blamed his colleagues in All Progressives Congress, APC, for the emergence of Ike Ekweremadu as his deputy, despite being a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.