Senator Babafemi Ojudu is one of the witnesses against
Senate president, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike
Ekweremadu over forgery allegations.
Ojudu who is the special adviser to President Muhammadu
Buhari on political matters, in a statement issued on Tuesday,
June 28, insisted that his role as a witness in the case
involving Saraki and others for allegedly forging the Senate
Standing Rules, does not have anything to do with his role with
the presidency.
The former Ekiti lawmaker also added that his position as a
witness is as a member of the Unity Forum, a faction of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the Nigerian Senate.
Senator Babafemi Ojudu has opened up on why he is testifying
against Saraki.
Saraki, Ekweremadu and two other key members of the
Senate were dragged to court by the Attorney General of the
Federation and minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami over
allegations of forgery and conspiracy and Ojudu happened to
be one of those testifying against he Senate president.
“My statement and other witnesses’ statement were taken
months before my appointment. As a member of the Unity
Forum, I am one of those who worked for Senator Ahmed
Lawan as the preferred candidate for the Senate Presidency in
the June 9, 2015 election.
“There are three groups of senators, they are: the Unity Forum,
Like Minds and the Non-Aligned. The Unity Forum comprises
both serving and non-serving senators. I am an active member,
being a senator in the 7th Senate from 2011 to 2015,” his
statement obtained by The Nation revealed.
While stressing that the rules were never tampered with during
his four-year stint with the Nigerian senate, Ojudu lamented
that tampering with the rules by the current Senate “was seen
as a misnomer by us and that was why we petitioned the police.
“The statement we did to the police on the matter predated my
appointment and that of Senator Ita Enang. It will therefore be
preposterous for anyone to classify me as representing the
Presidency on the matter.”
Meanwhile, Mrs Ezenwude Nwakego was one of those who
protested in front of the courthouse during the arraignment of
Saraki and others, and she made her grievances known with a
Holy Bible.
Nwakego said she was praying for God to intervene in the
case of Nigeria and taking a cue from Psalm 109, stated: “Let
God judge this Nigeria; there is no food, we are lacking many
things, no work for all the graduates.”