*Says, “Heavens won’t fall if Saraki, others are arrested”
*No blackmail will stop SP from facing Police investigations, He says
*Adds, “Buhari more popular than gagging anybody”
*“Timi Frank’s alarm is way PDP cries to avert justice”
A People’s Democratic Party (PDP) member from the Buba Galadima’s R-APC bloc, Mr. Timi Frank, has raised the alarm over a fresh plot to arrest the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on the orders of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris in connivance with the presidency.
Timi Frank Frank in a statement in Abuja said he has reliable information that the IGP has ordered operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) to raid Saraki’s residence any moment from this night and effect his arrest.
He described the plot as an act of desperation and utter wickedness by the IGP who is overly eager to redeem his image following the failure of the police to prevent Saraki from attending the sitting of the Senate on Tuesday where 15 APC lawmakers defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Frank said that the Presidency, which has repeatedly wished Saraki and others best of luck as it said their defection will touch nothing about the President’s chances, is equally anxious to get back at Saraki over the defections and therefore has mandated the IGP to ensure his arrest and detention simply to embarrass him.
“Recall that the police on Tuesday morning laid siege on the residence of the President of the Senate and that of his deputy in a bid to arrest and prevent them from attending plenary. Saraki was able to escape and presided over the Senate.
“Following the development the presidency summoned the IGP and after berating him for failing to gag Saraki, gave him a fresh ultimatum to arrest Saraki using every power at his disposal.
“This act of desperation by the IGP, backed by the presidency against Saraki is condemnable as it has no place in democracy.
“I hereby call on all Nigerias and members of the international community to rise in unison to condemn this act of tyranny and barbarity being perpetrated against the President of the Senate by the present administration using the police.
“As you read this statement the SARS may already be storming the residence of the President of the Senate and I want to call on Nigerians to hold the IGP and the presidency responsible should any harm befall him following the plot to invade of his residence in the dead of the night,” Frank said.
Speaking to The DEFENDER on Thursday, some concerned citizens in the Better Nigeria Project including Lagos-based accountant, Mr. Wale Ogunyemi, have charged President Muhammadu Buhari to go ahead with anything he believes will actualize the better country “we have desired.”
They also encouraged the Inspector-General of Police Ibrahim Idris not to be affected by the blackmails of the “frustrated” politicians who after failing in their coalition MoU against President Buhari and further failing in their defection from APC to PDP are still not satisfied but now resorting to “cheap blackmails”.
In his reaction, Mr. Ogunyemi said, the coast is now clear as many who hitherto were part of anti-Buhari fight had started pulling out realizing Buhari they so much hated was actually working for their own good.
The accountant, who made this charge in a Thursday morning telephone interview with The DEFENDER, said, “You as media men are link between the people and the government. So, take our message to President Buhari that he is the most popular and powerful person now and that he should go ahead and pick up anybody involved in the problem at hand and we Nigerians are behind him.
“See Saraki now and Dogara the way they are doing taking us for a ride as a nation. The APC Senators have their time now to rescue their governing Party from the hawks drawing back the progress of the country in their name,” he said.
