The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has alleged that there are moves by “certain agents” to bribe senators of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) to protect President Muhammadu Buhari from
imminent parliamentary sanctions for constitutional breaches.
In a statement, Kola
Ologbondiyan, spokesman of PDP, said in a move against possible sanction on his
handling of the Walter Onnoghen case, Buhari has summoned a “clandestine
meeting on Monday ahead of senate resumption”.
The party alleged that the APC
senators have been bribed with huge sums of money to disrupt the session when
the matter is raised.
“Intelligence available to the
PDP shows that this is the reason the jittery Presidency summoned all APC
senators to the presidential villa to a clandestine meeting on Monday night,
ahead of the senate’s resumption on Tuesday,” the statement read.
“The PDP has been informed of how
the Buhari Presidency has been unsettled following national and international
outcry over his constitutional breaches, particularly the assault on the
judiciary in his attempt to forcefully remove the Chief Justice of Nigeria
(CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen and impose a pliable CJN to do his bidding.
“President Buhari is not only apprehensive
that the senate might sanction him for violating the constitution and usurping
its statutory duties regarding the handling of issues related to a CJN, the
parliament might also open an inquest into how President Buhari, who parades as
Mr. Integrity, allegedly procured an order from the Code of Conduct Tribunal
(CCT) upon which he announced the illegal suspension of the CJN.
“There are reports that the said
order is suspicious and subject to investigation, being not argued or issued in
the open court; following which a distressed Buhari Presidency now seeks to
corrupt and undermine the Senate.
The PDP said it raised the alarm
to protect Nigeria’s democracy as against being partisan.
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