The senators, who are members of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that they would also continue to support Saraki as he faced his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. One of them, Gershom Bassey, said that there was no rift between the senators of the PDP and their All Progressives Congress (APC) counterparts in the Senate, adding that the PDP senators still had confident in Saraki’s leadership. Bassey said that the senators might disagree on issues, but that such disagreements were healthy for legislation. “We have had two votes of confidence on him and they stand. He has the confidence of the Senate and there is absolutely no problem. “In spite of the disagreement between the APC and PDP senators, nothing has changed. In democracy, people must have different points of view and we must express those points of view. “The Senate is a vibrant one that has a lot of vibrant debates; the Senate is not a football team that we all have to play in the same direction,” he said. On his part, Senator George Sekibo (PDP Rivers East) said that PDP members at the upper chamber walked out to protest the refusal of the Senate to discuss a committee’s report on Amaechi, insisting that they would not go back on the decision. Sekibo, who submitted the petition against Amaechi to the Senate shortly after the former governor was nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari for ministerial appointment, said that PDP senators had made their position known. According to him, it is now left for Nigerians to know what to do. On Saraki’s assets declaration trial, he maintained that PDP senators were behind him.]]>