Senators speak about Saraki’s impeachment
– Saraki’s supporters in the senate described the trial as mere persecution
– In a joint statement they promised to resist any attempt of impeachment of the senate president
Saraki arrives court with his entourage.
Senators who supported the Senate president Bukola Saraki have revealed attempts to impeach him over his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
A group of senators has promised to stand firmly behind Saraki and enable that his post is protected.
Ibrahim Abdulrafiu, speaking with the journalists on behalf of the group, defined the senate president’s trial as mere persecution.
He said: “We have since discovered that the trial of the senate president is a mere attempt to blackmail him and make him look bad in the court of public opinion. No more, no less.
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“A dispassionate analysis of the proceeding of the CCT yesterday has pointed to the fact that the APC-led executive is still embittered against Dr Saraki over the manner of his election as the senate president.
“This is why we are standing for the senate president and we will so do till the very end. We are doing this not for him but for the institution of the senate that he imminently represents. We will never allow any arm of government to rubbish the cherished autonomy of the senate.
“For those calling for the impeachment of the senate president, we urge them to avail themselves of the provisions of the law relating to such a sensitive step. As far as we are concerned, there is nothing like that on the table, and if anybody is trying to import that from the outside of the Senate, God helps them.
“All I know is that they will have to produce as many as a 100 senators to achieve that aim. As long as they don’t have the majority, the call is a tall dream that will remain a figment of the imagination of the groups and their sponsors.”
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The latest corruption claim to hit Saraki emerged from the Panama Papers investigation into a trove of 11.5 million tax documents leaked from law firm Mossack Fonseca, which specialises in creating offshore shell companies.
The senate president is alleged to have failed to declare at least four offshore assets listed under his wife Toyin’s name that appear in the leaked papers.
Saraki is facing charges including false declaration of assets while he was governor of the Kwara state from 2003 to 2011, all charges that he denies.
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