OrderPaperToday – Senate President Bukola Saraki has said his inclusion in the charge sheet of the case of alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Orders was part of attempts to remove him from office.
Reacting for the first time since news broke last week that the Federal Government has charged him alongside Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and former Clerk to the National Assembly and Clerk of the Senate, Saraki however vowed to clear his name through all legal means.

In a statement released on Wednesday and signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki said he was never invited by the police during investigation of the alleged forgery and was surprised that his name appeared on the charge sheet.

In the statement entitled ‘I Know Nothing About Alleged Forgery,’ the Senate President said “on-going efforts to drag him into a case of forgery before the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, was just another phase in the orchestrated persecution he has faced since he emerged as Senate President a little over a year ago.”

Saraki stated that he was not a part of the leadership of the 7th Senate that made the rules in question and prior to his unanimous election as Senate President on June 9, 2015, he was merely a Senator-elect like all his colleagues, and therefore was not in a position to influence the rules that were to be used in the conduct of the election.

He said: “The Police in their investigation were conscious that the incumbent Senate President was not in office prior to June 9, 2015 and that was why in their letters inviting some individuals for their investigation, they only mentioned officers of the 7th Senate. The last of the letters was written to the Clerk of the National Assembly on June 7, 2016 and he was not among those invited.

“Those who decided to smuggle the name of the Senate President into the charge sheet after the fact knew perfectly well that only the leadership of the 7th Senate were invited for investigation. But they needed to implicate him in keeping with their declared vow to ensure that even if their current efforts to nail him through the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) fails, they would find other ways to carry out their vendetta.

“This so-called forgery case is another wanton abuse of the judicial process and making a mockery of the institution of justice. As the Senate earlier stated, the sponsors of this plot are not only gunning for Dr. Saraki, what they have just launched with this latest antics is a grand onslaught on the foremost institution of our democracy. The only institutional difference between dictatorship and democracy is the presence of the legislature. Therefore, by seeking to cripple the National Assembly, they have declared a war on our hard-won democracy and aimed for the very jugular of our freedom.

“Let us restate the fact that the Senators who initiated the Police investigation in the first place had raised the same matter on the floor and were overwhelmingly overruled. They also filed a civil suit and were told by the court that neither the judiciary nor the executive can interfere in the internal affairs of the legislative arm.

“The Senate President recognizes the sundry problems bedevilling our nation today – food insecurity, devaluation of the Naira, inflation, unemployment, failing national infrastructure, insurgency in the North-eastern part of the country, restiveness in the oil producing areas, and general insecurity, among others – and believes that finding solutions to them should be the priority, at this period, for every individual in government, not the pursuit of narrow political objectives. That is why these needless distractions will do nobody any good. In fact, it will not help in delivering on the promise of bringing positive change to the lives of our people who voted for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last elections.

“The Senate President does not see what value this current attempt to shut down the Senate by dragging its presiding officers before a court for a phantom allegation of forgery will add to the attempts to solve the problems confronting the nation.”

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Saraki name don turn consignment.

Seriously I don't understand the mission of Buhari lead Executive, Nigerians need are enormous but the government won't solve them but rather embarking on a suicide mission in the quest to pocket the National Assembly, if he tackles our challenges as a nation the way he's embracing dictatorial tendencies things would have been better for Nigerians.





#Hopebuhariwillstandtheheatwhensenatefiresback.....

Just shut up and face your case

vedaxcool:
Just shut up and face your case

while our economic case has no end in sight



JUST

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BlackSeptember:
while our economic case has no end in sight



JUST

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Haa saraki ó dé bẹru Ọlọhun.... Fear God now. Na when you turn to container.

What will it profit me if i continue to stand with buhari while he fights his political opponents and neglecting the poor state of the economy and tomorrow I'm booted out of office because of the company need to retrench staff in the face of dwindling economy

Will i hold my sack letter and smile with glee that Saraki is in jail that the world isn't too bad to me?


OR



Will i curse the day i lost focus on what is more imortant to me.




You need to be selfish now if you want to be alive for Mr Daft Eldorado

By the time this dullard of president called buhari finishes with saraki,if he sees anywhere elections are being conducted he will run for his life.

I am beginning to wonder and comparing whose comment is more gullible - Fayose or saraki?

BlackSeptember:
What will it profit me if i continue to stand with buhari while he fights his political opponents and neglecting the poor state of the economy and tomorrow I'm booted out of office because of the company need to retrench staff in the face of dwindling economy

Will i hold my sack letter and smile with glee that Saraki is in jail that the world isn't too bad to me?


OR



Will i curse the day i lost focus on what is more imortant to me.




You need to be selfish now if you want to be alive for Mr Daft Eldorado

Sir, believe it or not, corruption causes more unemployment than anything else in an economy.

BlackSeptember:
What will it profit me if i continue to stand with buhari while he fights his political opponents and neglecting the poor state of the economy and tomorrow I'm booted out of office because of the company need to retrench staff in the face of dwindling economy

Will i hold my sack letter and smile with glee that Saraki is in jail that the world isn't too bad to me?


OR



Will i curse the day i lost focus on what is more imortant to me.




You need to be selfish now if you want to be alive for Mr Daft Eldorado

LOL.

You dnt mind them buying a refinery with loot stolen from u while u cry about 145 naira per litre fuel

You dnt mind about them using the loot to buy a tomato paste factory as long as you buy tomato for 100naira.

Continue this short sightedness go affect plenty more people.

..........Holy Ghost! ascuse me sire! who did the smyggling and through which border? seee packaged lies abeg! shiooooooooo!

So saraki don turn cotonou rice wey dem dey smuggles abi?