Senate clash over Saraki's trail

Members of the All Progressives Congress in the Senate rose from a marathon meeting on Wednesday, and got sharply divided over the call for the resignation of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, based on his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

THE PUNCH learnt that while a section of the senators who attended a meeting held at the Asokoro residence of Senator Magartarkada Wammako, were insisting that a resolution for Saraki’s resignation be passed across to him, others said to be his loyalists opposed the action.
The senator representing Kwara South senatorial district, Rafiu Ibrahim, told journalists after the meeting that the senators reiterated their earlier stance that Saraki’s trial was a “mere persecution” and an attempt to tarnish his image.

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 Ibrahim said, “We have since discovered that the trial of the Senate President is a mere attempt to blackmail him and make him look bad in the court of public opinion. No more, no less.

 “A dispassionate analysis of the proceeding of the CCT yesterday (Tuesday) has pointed to the fact that the APC-led executive is still embittered against Saraki over the manner of his election as the  Senate president.

“This is why we are standing for the Senate President and we will so do till the very end. We are doing this not for him but for the institution of the Senate that he eminently represents. We will never allow any arm of the government to rubbish the cherished autonomy of the Senate.

”The calls in some quarters that the Senate President should resign from his position are borne out of ignorance and pure hatred. We describe the call as ‘wicked and unfounded.’

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