The Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution urging security agencies to thoroughly investigate the alleged assassination attempt on its Deputy President, Ike Ekweremadu. Ekweremadu had told his colleagues at plenary on Tuesday how armed men allegedly invaded his Abuja residence around 4 a.m. earlier in the day. He said the intruders made it to his bedroom where he was sleeping with his wife at the time. The lawmaker had alleged that the police poorly responded to his distress calls during the incident. The resolution followed a motion moved by Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe (PDP-Abia South), who faulted the preliminary report of the police on the incident. Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday evening, the Force Public Relations Officer, Mr Jimoh Moshood, had said the incident was a burglary and not an assassination attempt. Moshood said that a similar incident also took place at the residence of Haliru Adamu, a neighbour of the deputy president. “Investigation so far carried...