In 2 years, the 8th Senate has recieved over 339 petitions - Bukola Saraki

The 8th Senate of the country is just in it's 2nd year and it has received a record number of petitions.
According to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki,

'We've had over 339 petitions and so far we've been able to treat about 76 of them so we still have a few more to clear. To give you an idea, the 6th senate received only 6 petitions while the 7th senate received 87 petitions'.

'I did not do any deal with PDP for Ekweremadu to become Deputy Senate President' - Saraki says

Senate President Bukola Saraki has denied that he had a deal with PDP to ensure that Ike Ekweremadu who is from the opposition party, emerge Deputy Senate President. On June 9th 2015, a controversial election in the senate saw the emergence of Saraki and Ekweremadu emerge as President and Deputy Senate President. This was against the will of the APC leadership.

Some Nigerians believed that Saraki had a deal with PDP that if the PDP members voted him into power, one of their members would emerge as deputy. For political arrangement, this is incorrect as this is an APC government that is expected to have all their party members in all positions of power.

While answering questions from one of his followers this morning, Saraki denied claims of having a deal with PDP to ensure Ike Ekweremadu emerged Deputy Senate President. According to him, some of the APC members who were supposed to vote during the senate election, decided to be somewhere else when the election was taken place. Ekweremadu defeated Ali Ndume of the APC to emerge the 8th Deputy Senate President. See his tweet replies below...