The current challenges aimed at ousting the sitting Senate President, Bukola Saraki has been linked to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, David Lawal and some other officials in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration
The same implicated group of Lawal and others have also been fingered as the key challenges facing the unresolved Saraki’s matter.
The claims were laid yesterday by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Isa Misau, representing Bauchi Central whole speaking to journalists. The Senator also dismissed speculations that opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will take over if the current Senate President was removed.
The senator further alleged that the Secretary to the Government of the Federation was recently in a meeting with some Elders in the Senate, he said; “I reliably gathered that some of our elders in the Senate once went to meet the Secretary to Federal Government, SGF, Mr. David Lawal, in order to find solutions to this problem.
‘’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 also dismissed the idea that the PDP will take over if the seating Senate President was ousted. “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 further assured the support of other members of the House across the geopolitical zones, “I am a Muslim and I know that nobody can be a leader without the will of the Almighty Allah.
‘’But I can tell you today that 99 percent of the senators are solidly behind Saraki. So what we call closing of ranks is actually for us to unite behind our leadership in the Senate, behind the Federal Government and also behind President Muhammadu Buhari,’’
He continued that; “Several efforts have been made and are still being made. However, there are challenges. 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.”