NewsUpdate: PDP Senators back out, say “we are not fighting for Saraki”
Senators of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have made a u-turn from their earlier position on the National Assembly crisis saying they are not opposed properly handled impeachment of Senate President Bukola Saraki.
The strength wielded by Saraki with which he was said to have dragged the nation in the mud slowing down governance with alleged intention to help collapse the Muhammadu Buhari-led APC Federal Government are the PDP lawmakers.
Saraki group have persistently denied allegations that the chief lawmaker had any intention to cause havoc capable of wrecking or collapsing the government.
But citizens, who claimed they have followed the style of the Kwara Senator since inception of his leadership of the Senate, are insisting that the PDP lawmakers made him work against the party that not only saved him in 2014 from the onslaught being plotted for him by Goodluck Jonathan-led government but also gave him platform to return to the Senate where he allegedly bamboozled his way to the Senate Presidency against the will of the party.
But in a turn of event after due pondering, Saraki’s major backers, the PDP Senators, said that President Buhari and APC should not see them as fighting for the Senate President but that anything that must be done about him including impeachment must not be illegally done.
Making this known on Saturday was Senator Ben Bruce who said the Peoples Democratic Party was not fighting for the Senate President Bukola Saraki but for democracy.
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole had said Senate President will be impeached according to legal and democratic norms, having defected to the minority People’s Democratic Party (PDP) with 48 senators.
But Saraki in attempt to frustrate such impeachment, had shutdown the National Assembly prematurely on excuse of annual recess.
The President before he traveled on his 10-day annual vacation had appealed to the lawmakers to reconvene to enable them work on vital Bill of INEC 2019 elections budget before the Senate.
In the meantime, Saraki has fresh allegation of being involved in the DSS Siege laid to the National Assembly complex to embarrass the Buhari government and blackmail the APC in the eyes of the globe.
The APC government’s sack of the DSS DG Lawal Musa Daura for acting without consulting with the Presidency over the movement of operations to the assembly has been described as being smarter than Saraki, with whom Daura was alleged to have connived in total betrayal of the President who entrusted him with a position as sensitive as that of DSS.
The PDP senators have backed out of their resistance to move to remove the Senate President lest they are seen as connivers against Nigeria’s progress.
Ben Bruce in a tweet maintained that if APC can impeach Saraki legally then they should do so rather than attempting to do so through illegal and undemocratic means and that impression given to PDP by Saraki could have meant the same impression given to Daura that made him moved on the National Assembly in the magnitude of which he did.
Bruce said, “The APC Federal Government must not misunderstand my colleagues in the PDP and I. We are not fighting for @BukolaSaraki, we are fighting for democracy. If they can impeach Saraki legally then they should do so and stop any forceful, illegal and undemocratic attempt at impeachment”.
