REVEALED!!!Senators Set To Impeach Saraki

 

The problems of Nigeria’s embattled senate

president, Bukola Saraki, might have taken

another dimension has reports have revealed

that senators under the Senate Unity Forum

had begun to woo senators loyal to the

Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki in

the face of the ongoing trial of the Mr Saraki

at the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

Troubled senator Bukola Saraki

It would be recalled that of Senate Unity

Forum who were opposed to the emergence

of Saraki as senate president and are believed

to be loyal to the leadership of the ruling

party, All Progressive Congress (APC).

It is believed that the group in in new move,

might have succeeded in the support of 12

pro-Saraki senators who are mainly members

of the opposition party Peoples Democratic

Party members, Punch reports.

 

It was also reported that the group has had

several meetings with leadership of the APC

including Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief John

Odigie-Oyegun and Chief Bisi Akande on how

to get the required 73 members needed to

oust the senate president.

“We know that getting the required figure to

carry out an impeachment at the moment would

be a herculean task but honestly we hope to

achieve it very soon. Already there has been a

serious move to get our former party members

who are with Saraki now back to our camp.

“I can also confirm to you that we have the

support of about 12 Peoples Democratic Party

senators who are ready to support any move

against Saraki. Don’t forget that some ranking

PDP senators are still aggrieved over the

emergence of freshers as their principal

officers,” a member of the group from the

South-West geopolitical zone told the

newspaper.

Further checks by one of our correspondents

also revealed that some of the APC leaders

who met with the SUF members had asked

the anti – Saraki senators to work on some

influential PDP senators who could get their

colleagues to support their course.

Another source who was questioned over the

move and quoted said, “I am not in Abuja now,

we shall resume on Monday. I don’t have

specific information at the moment but what I

can assure you of is that our leaders have said

that it is fight to finish.

“We learnt that the like minds senators are

already working on some of their supporters in

the PDP camp to reject the ministerial list by

refusing to screen them but we are also ready

for them. I won’t disclose our strategy for now.”

A senator told the newspaper that Saraki

might step aside to save his face from the

impending embarrassment at the end of the

CCT trial.

“We know that he might want to give conditions

like a settlement of his CCT case out of court,

withdrawing of Economic and Financial Crimes

Commission charges against his wife and an

end to his former manager’s trial for alleged

fraud at the Société Générale Bank. We could

help him in this regard to have a soft landing

and avoid disgrace,“ he said.

But a pro-Saraki senator maintained that the

seat of the Senate President was not

threatened because the Code of Conduct

Tribunal had no jurisdiction to try Senator

Bukola Saraki for any criminal offence.

 

“The idea that members of the SUF are reaching

out to pro-Saraki senators in the senate does

not arise because majority of the members of

the upper chamber had freely elected their

presiding officers and would not be in a hurry

to remove them because of any politically

motivated trial by a tribunal which lacks

jurisdiction to do so.

“Nobody can impeach or arrest the Senate

President, and the lawyers are there to argue

out the competence or otherwise of the CCT to

try the case preferred against him. More than 80

senators had signed a document with which

they unanimously passed a vote of confidence

on their president.

“No senator had approached any of us on any

issue of impeachment because they know the

answer already. They cannot get 73 senators to

impeach the Senate President. They are playing

games and we are also ready for them,” he

said.

Meanwhile, the APC may have concluded

plans to replace the embattled Senate

president.

Saraki recently said his appearance before

the Code of Conduct Tribunal has further

demonstrated his believe in the rule of law

and respect for the judiciary.