The Presidency has blamed recent
happenings in the polity on President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola
Saraki.
In an article Friday evening by
Senator Babafemi Ojudu, the Political Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari in
the Office of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the presidency
insinuated that Saraki had been working with retired General Ibrahim Badamasi
Babangida, the Nigeria Police, the Department of State Services (DSS) and the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
In the article, titled: “Fifth
columnists in our recent history,” Ojudu alluded to some of the happenings
during the military regime, which Buhari led, allegedly committed by some of
the former General’s lieutenants, but which they ended up heaping on him as
reasons for overthrowing him.
Ojudu wrote: “They hired a band
of boys within the security to proceed to the house of the revered leader of
the Yorubas, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
“In the middle of the night the
boys sacked the house, forced their way into his bedroom, ransacked everywhere
and broke down his ward robe.
“They claimed they were sent by
the then Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari to go look for some
confidential documents acquired illegally by the Chief.
“The Yorubas and other
sympathizer of Buhari were outraged. That was the end of the romance between
the anti corruption duo of Buhari and General Tunde Idiagbon and the people.
“They didn’t stop at that they
sent another band of marauders to Kaduna. Destination was the home of the
Islamic cleric, Alhaji Gumi. Their goal: embarrass the much respected cleric
and set the Muslims against the regime. They succeeded at this as well.
“A couple of months thereafter
when they struck and overthrew the regime, these were listed among the offenses
committed by General Buhari. The people having been deceived applauded them and
Buhari adjudged high handed, brutal and a dictator.”
Ojudu said he was not shocked
when Saraki visited Babangida after the invasion and blockade of the National
Assembly by the operatives of the DSS, adding that his reading of the situation
was that the President of the Senate went to brief Babangida on the
development.
He wrote: “When a couple of days
ago Senator Bukola Saraki visited the gap tooted General in Minna, I
interpreted it as going to ask: ‘Oga I hope I am doing well?'”
The presidential aide further
listed the invasion of the houses of some judges by the DSS in the middle of
the night, the freezing of the accounts of the Akwa Ibom and Benue States
Governments by the EFCC and the invasion of the National Assembly and Benue
State House of Assembly by the DSS and police as activities carried out with
the knowledge of Saraki.
He wrote: “From the shenanigans
at the Benue House of Assembly, to the siege on National Assembly, the attack
on judges home in the night, the so called barricade of the Senate President’s
house, the laughable kidnap of Boy Dino and ‘his eleven hours on a tree’, the
freezing of Benue and Akwa Ibom accounts all are scripted, produced and acted
by Oloye (Saraki) Productions.”
Ojudu added: “Soon they may come
up with a bullet riddled vehicle and claim that the Executive Producer has
survived an assassination attempt. After all some of the Offa sharp shooters
are still at large.
“May God save us from these power
mongers.”
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