Senate delegation have not been able to get appointment to meet President Muhammadu Buhari over the
faceoff between Senate President Bukola Saraki and the
Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.
Senate delegation have not been able to get appointment to meet President Muhammadu Buhari over the
faceoff between Senate President Bukola Saraki and the
Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.
IGBERE TV reports that the Senate had last Wednesday
raised a 10-man delegation to meet President Buhari over
allegation by Saraki that the IGP was plotting to frame him
up in a criminal case.
Saraki told his colleagues that the police boss was plotting
to implicate him in a criminal case involving cultists in Kwara
State.
Saraki said: “In my own view, this plot is an act of
desperation, blackmail, intimidation, abuse of office and
crude tactics aimed at turning our country into a police state
where top officials cannot be made to obey the law ,follow
due process and subject themselves to constituted
authorities.”
Sequel to the alarm, a 10-man delegation was raised to meet
the President. Saraki is to lead the delegation.
Other members of the delegation are Ahmad Lawan, Godswill
Akpabio, Olusola Adeyeye, Danjuma Goje, Abduullahi Adamu,
Sam Egwu, Aliyu Wammako, Fatima Raji- Rasaki, Oluermi
Tinubu.
It was gathered that the delegation, which was mandated to
report back on Wednesday had not made an appointment
with the President.
A source told Daily Trust last night that appointment has not
been given to the delegation to meet Buhari.
“We haven’t gone to the Villa because appointment has not
been given to us. We can only go there on appointment,” he
said.
On whether the Senate has written the Presidency
requesting for the meeting, he said: “It is the office of the
Senate President that should do it and I don’t know if it has
done so or not.”
The spokesperson of the Senate, Sabi Aliyu Abdullahi did not
reply the text message sent to him on the matter.
IGBERE TV recalls that Kwara State Ministry of
Justice has said that the suspected cultists arrested in the
state did not implicate anybody in their confessional
statement.
