You must resign, TMG tells Saraki

The Transition Monitoring Group on Sunday insisted that Senate President Bukola Saraki should resign from office.
The group in a statement issued in Abuja and signed by its Chairman, Ibrahim Zikirullahi said the group has observed closely as  Saraki struggles to rationalise his decision to sit-tight in the face of damning revelations from his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal and the leaked Panama Papers.
“Like a drowning man, Saraki is advertising his willingness to hold on to any straw.
“Since TMG released its widely circulated statement calling on him to immediately step down on account of damaging effects of his trial on the Senate as an institution, Saraki has cut a pathetic figure.

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“His vile calculations that the Nigerian people would soon forget about the revelations, and move on, have boomeranged.
“Saraki and his spin doctors are now running from pillar to post in a desperate last ditch effort to silence courageous voices.
“The result of this pathetic approach to clear questions of accountability, is a streak of hallucination that has led Saraki and his fellow legislooters to create imaginary enemies in order to conflate issues and deflect responsibility.
“Knowing that shame, contrition and conscience are alien to characters like these, it is not surprising that they continue to defy civilised standards in human conduct. Saraki should make no mistake about it; he is the man in the dock, having to face up to the consequences of his actions.
” Saraki is the one who has to cope with insomnia in this futile battle to erase the truth. He may bluff and bluster as much as he wants; the Nigerian people have made up their mind that his position is no longer tenable.
“There is no mistaking the fact that he has completely lost legitimacy. Like the exposed shell companies he secretly opened in Panama, he is now an empty shell. All his diversionary antics notwithstanding.
“TMG insists it is time for Saraki to go. That is the verdict of the Nigerian people; in due course, the voices of the people will prevail,”the group said.

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