Secretary to the Government of the Federation,
David Lawal and some other people in
President Muhammadu Buhari’s government
have been accused of being behind Senate
president, Bukola Saraki’s ordeal.
They have been accused of masterminding the
plot to remove Saraki from office and have
vowed not to allow the matter be resolved,
Vanguard reports.
The chairman, Senate committee on navy,
Senator Isa Misau (APC Bauchi Central), who
spoke to journalist on Thursday, March 31, said
the solution to Saraki’s trial was political but,
some people in Buhari’s government were
stalling the solution.
He said: “ Despite President Muhammadu
Buhari’s commendable position not to interfere,
there are some hardliners within this
government who are still fueling this matter
and are, as a matter of fact, interfering with the
trial.”
According to him, some elders in the Senate
recently met with the SGF in order to find a
lasting solution to the problem but he turned
their request.
“They were surprised by some of his
utterances and they reported back to some
senators that he vowed that this matter will not
be resolved until Saraki goes down for spiting
the party leadership,” he said.
Speaking on insinuations that the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), would take over the
Senate if Saraki was removed, he said APC
senators would do everything possible to
defeat the opposition if it came to producing
another Senate president.
Misau said: “What my friend, distinguished
Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, said will not happen
because the APC caucus of the Senate will
under no circumstances allow Dr. Abubakar
Bukola Saraki to be removed.
“But I understand the larger implication of what
Nwaoboshi is saying because our majority in
the Senate is very slim which means we need
to be careful and that is why we need to find a
political solution to this crisis and this trial of
the Senate President at the Code of Conduct
Tribunal.”
He noted that 99 percent of the senators are
solidly behind the Senate president, adding that
several efforts have been made and are still
being made to resolve the matter.
Saraki is facing trial at the Code of Conduct
Tribunal, for a 13-count charge bordering on
alleged corruption and false declaration of
assets while he was the governor of Kwara
state.
Some political leaders in the north-central
zone alleged that Saraki’s trial was an abuse of
the legal system in the country by the
chairman of the CCT, Justice Danlami Umar,
calling on Buhari to halt the alleged injustice
being meted out to the Senate president.
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