How can Magu whom the Senate refused to confirm be working for Saraki? We’re not fools— Sen Misau

Chairman, Senate Committee on Navy, Senator Isa Hamma Misau, has described as shameless, allegations by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and the Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, that the security agencies in the country are working for the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

Misau, who recently defected from the ruling APC to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said this in a statement on Monday, adding that the presidency should be ashamed for pushing the conspiracy script that top officials of the nation’s security are working for Saraki.

His statement is coming on the heels of a denial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, that it is working for the Senate President.

The allegation was credited to Ojudu in an article he wrote which was widely circulated.

According to Misau, both Oshiomhole and Ojudu, were spinning the same conspiracy theory to hide the lack of coordination and discipline amongst the security agencies.

Misau said,“The EFCC’s statement confirms our immediate reaction that both Ojudu and Oshiomhole have been reading from the same conspiracy script.

“Nigerians find it unthinkable that Magu, that the Senate refused to confirm — whose EFCC has also prosecuted Saraki for over 3 years at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) would now turn around and start working for this same Saraki. How is this possible?

“These people think that they can just wake up, think up conspiracy theories and try to sell it to Nigerians, but the public is smarter and more discerning than their shallow fictitious narratives”, the senator stated.

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Questioning the rationale behind such conspiracy theory, Misau asked, “In any case, shouldn’t they be ashamed to even claim that the entire internal security institutions in the country are working for someone else other than the person that appointed them?

“Additionally, at what point did they decipher this? Was it before the siege on the National Assembly or after?

“What this goes to show is that in their desperate bid to blame someone else for their crime and incompetence, these people no longer have a sense of shame,” the Senator said.

The Senator re-echoed calls for a judicial panel of enquiry into the siege on National Assembly as the only way investigation into the incident can be done without bias.

“In this regard, we hereby reiterate the call for independent judicial panel of inquiry into the invasion. Any other such investigation into the matter would constitute another attempt by these same people to present a biased perspective to the assault on our nation’s democracy and its highest lawmaking body,” Misau stated.

 

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