Former Deputy National Publicity
Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has
accused the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, the
Director-General of the Department of State Services (DG – DSS), Lawan Daura
and 30 APC senators-led by the Senate Leader, Ahmad Lawan, of spearheading a
fresh plot to illegally impeach the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar
Bukola Saraki.
Frank, who raised the alarm in a
statement in Abuja Tuesday morning, said the group met last night in Abuja to
perfect strategies on how to carry out the plot.
He said that he has reliable
information that the meeting was at the instance of Oshiomhole, who is
currently mounting pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to accept his
proposal of using “crude tactics” to topple Saraki and his Deputy, Senator Ike
Ekweremadu.
He said, according to reliable
information emanating from the meeting, the National Vice Chairman (Southwest)
of the APC, Chief Adeniyi Adebayo, joined Oshiomhole in pushing for the
illegality while some APC senators and House of Representatives members at the
meeting kicked against the plot, saying any “forceful removal of Saraki without
due process will not fly with Nigerians”.
The lawmakers, according to
Frank, were said to have further alerted Oshiomhole and the APC leadership that
they only have 30 Senators on ground which will fall short of the 73 Senators
required to lawfully impeach Saraki.
According to them, while other APC
Senators have since travelled out of the country on vacation, a proposal to
appoint Senator Lawan from Yobe State as Saraki’s replacement would be a direct
violation of the Federal Character Principle since the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara is from Bauchi in the Northeast zone
like Lawan.
Following the red flag raised by
some of the APC Senators who warned of the consequences of the proposed
illegality, according to Frank, the meeting was said to have been rescheduled to
reconvene by 11am this morning to enable Oshiomhole call President Buhari in
London at 9am to brief him on the progress made so far.
It was further learnt that
Oshiomhole is expected to present the candidature of both Senators Lawan and
George Akume to the President to make his choice during his proposed telephone
conversation with him by 9am.
Frank added that the Presidency
through the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has increased the
$400,000 it already offered to lure individual lawmakers to support the plot to
illegally impeach Saraki to $500,000.
He said the lawmakers are also
being wooed with offers to drop all corruption charges against them by the
Federal Government.
The former APC deputy spokesman
insisted that Saraki’s life and personal safety is at stake while appealing to
Nigerians and leaders of the international community to urgently speak out to
protect the President of the Senate, Saraki, and safeguard democracy in
Nigeria.
He said that the illegal plot to
break into the Senate chambers to illegally impeach Saraki, if allowed to
happen, could lead to chaos and anarchy of unimaginable proportion in the
country, capable of burying the nation’s democracy apart from the danger it
portents for the lives, security and safety of Nigerians.
Meanwhile, one of the defected
lawmakers, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, was this morning prevented from accessing the
National Assembly complex.
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