The Senate yesterday made some serious allegations against Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi and Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, alleging that the governors were behind the recent spate of attacks on Senators in those states.
Recall that some thugs came to disrupt an empowerment program set up by senator Ahmed Ogembe of Kogi State just last week.
According to the Senate, these Governors were the masterminds and they were told to put their houses in order. The Senators also warned that if nothing was done, then chaos would reign in the build-up to the 2019 elections.
Senator Ahmed Ogembe, who put forward the motion, alleged that the Police Area Commander, Okene and the Divisional Police Officer of Okehi and Adavi local government areas were aware of the empowerment programme but did nothing to stop the thugs that came to ruin the event.
He expressed worry that “indeed, political violence, kidnapping, killings, assassinations of my constituents and supporters in Kogi Central have become the order of the day and the police have chosen to turn a blind eye.”
Dino Melaye also took the opportunity to narrate how he’d suffered at the hands of Bello with Deputy Senate President also talking about his ordeal in Enugu.
According to Ekweremadu, the Deputy Senate President; “I want to tell our brother Ogembe that some of us passed through the route before, but by the grace of God, we are here and those oppressors are at home because it is God that gives power.
“Sometimes in life, people think they are God. They play God because people have given them opportunity to superintend over the affairs of men. “So, they think that they became what they are by their special power and assume God. But ultimately, God intervenes to show them that they are not God.
“So, the problem in Nigeria now is that our democracy is receding, and the international community needs to know this.
“Who says that the Army cannot take over in Nigeria? It is possible. So, let us not joke with our democracy, especially with the way they going.