“These elements are now making desperate efforts, including scavenging through Senate accounts and committees he served in, with the sole aim of misrepresenting information, maligning, and running him out of office by hook or crook or force him to resign from office as the Deputy President of the Senate”.
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Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court who granted an order that appeared to halt the trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, over alleged corruption, has stood down from the case.
“He has a way of relating to all of us as equals that we are and trying to aggregate the overall interest and position of majority in taking decisions”.
Speaking on the vote of confidence, Chairman, Senate ad-hoc committee on Media and publicity, Senator Dino Melaye said that 83 Senators who endorsed the leadership of the Senate was the expression of confidence the lawmakers reposed on their leadership.
Senator Ike Ekweremadu says he is being blackmailed falsely by politicians seeking to unseat him.
Saraki is facing a 13-count charge of alleged corruption and false declaration of assets before the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
But in a statement on September 20, the Presidency denied any responsibility for the Senate President’s trial and described the attempt to link Buhari to Saraki’s trial as unacceptable. He represents one district like every other senator.
The President on Wednesday forwarded to the Senate, names of 21 nominees for confirmation, with a promise to send the others in due course.
They averred that the president pretended he didn’t mind the emergence of Saraki but also asked at the same time that party supremacy must be upheld. “What we face today is however unprecedented in ramification and potential gravity”, he said.
Presently, there are insinuations that even with the Saraki trial yet to start, the party leadership has begun to subtly look for a replacement from the North- Central, preferably a Muslim.
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The implication of this, therefore, is that the APC may be playing to the hands of the PDP, whose 49 is not only intact, but will bountifully reap from APC’s divided house (like the Tambuwal experience) and most likely elect a David Mark as Senate President.
