The All Progressives Congress (APC) has hailed what it called ‘timely intervention’ of the Department of State Services (DSS) in scuttling plot by Senate President Bukola Saraki to cause chaos at the National Assembly on Tuesday.
“Following Tuesday’s incident at the National Assembly, our investigations have now uncovered the sinister plot hatched by the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki to foment violence in the legislative chamber all in a bid to stop his impeachment,” the Acting National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr Yekini Nabena said yesterday in a statement.
Nabena also renewed call for the Senate President to resign from the position.
He said Saraki no longer has the moral and legitimate grounds to occupy the position as a member of the minority PDP, going by the popular axiom, ‘the majority will have their way, but the minority will have their say’.
“Our investigations uncovered and noted the following: we are now aware that the timely intervention of the security operatives forestalled the planned violence which could have led to possible deaths, injuries and destruction of property in the National Assembly on Tuesday.
“Why did the Senate President mobilise thugs to the National Assembly who almost lynched Hon. E.J. Agbonayinma, the only APC federal lawmaker present but for the timely intervention of security operatives.
“Why did the Senate President reconvene the National Assembly? Ostensibly as a pre-emptive move to frustrate federal lawmakers’ move to impeach him. “Is it not curious that only Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) federal lawmakers were present in their numbers-some as early as 7am, while the majority APC federal lawmakers were elsewhere holding a caucus meeting on the state of the nation,” the statement read in part.
The APC, therefore, called on security agencies and relevant bodies to take all necessary and legitimate action to stop what it called illegalities, which posed direct and ominous threat to our democracy.
