Politics
SGF, others behind Saraki’s travails – Sen Misau
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, David Lawal and some figures in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration have been fingered as the brain behind the current travails of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
They were also accused of plotting to remove the Senate President by all means as they keep blocking every effort to resolve the Saraki problem.
This was disclosed on Thursday by Senator Isa Misau while speaking to journalists in Abuja.
Misau, who chairs the Senate Committee on Navy, however debunk insinuations that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would take over the Senate if Saraki was removed.
According to Misau, hardliners in the administration of President Buhari are stalling the political solution needed to resolve the controversy.
He also alleged that some elders in the Senate met with the SGF but he turned down their requests.
He said: “I reliably gathered that some of our elders in the Senate once went to meet the Secretary to Federal Government, SGF, Mr. David Lawal, in order to find solutions to this problem.
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‘’They were surprised by some of his utterances and they reported back to some senators that he vowed that this matter will not be resolved until Saraki goes down for spiting the party leadership.”
On the PDP take over, Misau said the senators of APC would do all within their powers to defeat the PDP if it came to producing another senate president.
He said: “What my friend, distinguished Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, said will not happen because the APC caucus of the Senate will under no circumstances allow Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki to be removed.
“But I understand the larger implication of what Nwaoboshi is saying because our majority in the Senate is very slim which means we need to be careful and that is why we need to find a political solution to this crisis and this trial of the Senate President at the Code of Conduct Tribunal.”
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