Senate President Bukola Saraki
says he has been informed that the police summoned him in order to distract
some senators plotting to defect from the ruling All Progressives Congress
(APC).
Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general
of police, had written a letter to the senate president asking him to appear in
person over the robbery incident in Offa, Kwara state.
The suspects arrested had
reportedly confessed that the senate president bought arms for them.
But Saraki who has maintained
innocence, accused the police of politicising their investigation.
In a statement issued by Yusuph
Olaniyonu, his spokesman, Saraki said the plot to compel him to stay in a party
“where its members are criminalised” will fail.
He alleged that the police have
“obviously corrupted and politicised their investigations into the Offa robbery
incident.”
“They have turned it into an
instrument for the party in power to suppress perceived opponents, witchunt
issue for blackmailing people from freely choosing which platform on which they
want to pursue their ambition and a matter for harassing the people whose exit
from APC would harm the chances of the party in the forthcoming elections,” the
statement read.
“I want to make it apparent that
I have no hand in either the robbery incident or any criminal acitivity. The
police in their haste to embarrass me sent the invitation to me at 8pm and
requested that I report to the station by 8am tomorrow morning. This obviously
demonstrated their desperation as I do not see why they are now in a hurry.
“They also stated in today’s
letter that because in my response of June 7, 2018 to their own letter written
on June 4, 2018, I stated that I was responding simply to the contents of the letter
and that the full text of the statement made by the arrested suspects which
they claimed indicted me was not made available to me, they were now including
the suspects statements in the current letter. Yet, instead of including the
suspects’ statements, they only attached two copies of my own letter to the
invitation. No suspects statement was made available.
“This plot aimed at compelling me
and my associates to stay in a party where members are criminalised without
just cause, where injustice is perpetrated at the highest level and where there
is no respect for constitutionalism is an exercise in futility and it will
fail.
“Once again, my confidence in God
and our judicial system remains intact and unshaken. The truth shall also
prevail in this case.”
Over 20 people, including police
officers, were killed by the armed robbers who attacked five commercial banks
in the city.
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