Senate President Bukola Saraki
and Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, have raised the alarm over the
alleged plan of the federal government to incarcerate them.
In a statement on Friday, Yusuph
Olaniyonu and Uche Anichukwu, their media aides, the legislators said this is
part of the plot to remove them from office.
The All Progressives Congress
(APC) have been mounting pressure on Saraki to step down for defecting to the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
But the senate president has
vowed not to relinquish power except two-thirds of the senate removes him.
In the statement, Saraki and
Ekweremadu alleged that the presidency had set up a panel to indict them over
the invasion of the national assembly by operatives of the Department of State
Services (DSS).
“The presidency has today
constituted a closet panel to review the report and submit a final
recommendation. The mandate of this closet panel, the two legislators stated,
is to turn facts on the head and blame the invasion of the national assembly on
the two leaders of the red chamber of the national assembly, who will then be
presented as having worked in tandem with the sacked director-general of the
DSS, Mallam Lawal Daura to stage the parliamentary security breach,” the
statement read.
“We have been reliably informed
that instead of the presidency to set up a public inquiry or judicial
commission to probe last Tuesday’s early morning Invasion of the national
assembly as being demanded by the general public, they have commenced a process
of manipulation and fabrication.
“The presidency has set up a
closet panel, which would work to a predetermined conclusion in which they will
now claim that the senate president and the deputy senate president worked in
collusion with ex-DG of DSS, Lawal Daura to stage the invasion.
“They want to shield the fact
that the previous night before the invasion and up till the early hours of
Tuesday, there was a meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) senators
and that the plan was for them to be moved in a coaster bus into the National Assembly
complex later that morning for them to purportedly remove us and select a new
senate president and deputy senate president.
“The presiding officers added
that they have also uncovered a sinister plot in which the government plans to
use the anti-graft and security agencies to incarcerate them and some members
of their families from next week, all in a bid to break their will and effect
their removal.”
The senate presiding officers
said the blockade of the national assembly must be probed through an
independent judicial commission of inquiry.
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