Dilemma of 11 defecting senators: Merry go round

No doubt, the Senate President, David Mark, has temporarily won the battle against the 11 aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party senators.

The senators have since January 20, given him a letter on their defection to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC. But Mark last  Tuesday declared that he would not read the letter until the case on the issue pending in the court of law was dispensed of.
The senators are now forced to continue sitting in the ranks of the PDP in the Senate even though they are now registered and card carrying members of the APC.

Senate President David Mark

They had earlier threatened to bluff their way through by moving on their own to sit in the seats reserved for the APC. However, they were forced to have a rethink when they got word that the Senate President  would declare their seats vacant should they take the law into their hands with that effort.
Faced with that threat, they quickly backtracked.
Defection letter
By still sitting with the PDP senators in the Senate chamber following non reading of their defection letter by the presiding officer of the Red Chamber as constitutionally required, despite their possession of their new party’s