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Presidency, APC plotting court order to unseat Saraki -PDP

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Presidency, APC plotting court order to unseat Saraki -PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the presidency and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of shopping for a fraudulent interim court order that would effectively unseat the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

The party alleged that a cabal in the presidency, along with the APC have perfected the plot as a way of getting back at Saraki for dumping the APC for the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

The PDP in a statement released by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, said that credible information at its disposal showed that the cabal and APC had perfected a plan to institute a lawsuit to challenge the validity of Saraki’s seat with the sole aim of securing a fraudulent injunction to force him out of office pending the determination of the substantive suit.

The statement reads in part: “Further intelligence available to us shows that once they are able to secure the injunction from a particular compromised judicial officer, they intend to arraign and detain the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, on trumped up charges and ensure he is not granted bail so as to keep him out of circulation while their men would move in to effect an illegal leadership change in the Senate.

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“While we trust that the Chief Justice of Nigeria will protect the sanctity of our judiciary especially at this trying time in our national history, we call on the institution of the judiciary at all levels to immune itself from being used by enemies of our democracy as no house falls leaving its roof standing.

“This desperation by despotic forces to forcefully and illegally take control of the Senate, the highest symbol of our Democratic Order, is nothing short of “civilianised coup” which must be resisted by all.

“The judiciary must therefore ensure that it is not intimidated or ensnared to be party to a desperate bid to destabilize our nation.

“The PDP holds that this newest devilish plot to destabilise our democracy lays credence to our earlier stand that President Buhari’s supposed London vacation is a ploy to absolve himself of responsibility for the political terror they have plotted to unleash on the opposition, especially the National Assembly.

“Although they denied it as usual, Nigerians can bear witness to the fact that there is nothing the APC government denied that they did not eventually execute.

“Indeed, there has never been any impunity they executed that they did not deny”.

Speaking further, the party called on “Nigerians and the international community to be on the alert as the conspirators plan to commence the execution of this evil plot from Tuesday next week”.

 

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