Police to invite Ekweremadu over forgery of senate. Senator Ekweremadu: faces accusations over forged senate rules. The leadership crisis in Nigeria's national assembly may have taken a turn for the worse with the invitation of the deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu by the police for questioning over the rules used to conduct elections on 9 june. A petition by senator suleiman Hunkuyi(Kaduna North), suggested that the rules used for the election of both Senator Bukola Saraki as senate President and Ike Ekweremadu as deputy senate president were forged. The extant rules at the end of the 7th Senate early in june, this year spell it out that the election of the principal officers shall be by open ballot. This was the rule, The suspicion is that the rules were concocted by the former president of the senate, David Mark, Ekweremadu, who also served as deputy senate president during Mark's era and clerks of the senate and National Assembly. But Olisa Metuh,the PDP spoke man describing it as an attempt by the All Progressive Congress to blackmail Ekweremadu to vacate the poaition. Olisa Metuh in a statement issued in Abuja made this allegation