The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has said that he has information that his invitation by Police on Tuesday is a plan by the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris to stop an alleged plan by some Senators and House of Representatives members from defecting from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Saraki who disclosed this in a series of twits on his twitter handle also said that it was alleged that if he was detained between Tuesday and Wednesday, that will abort the so-called defection plan.
He however noted that while he continue to maintain that the issue of his position on the 2019 elections was not a personal decision for him alone to make, it should be noted that all those concoctions and evil plots cannot deter him.
According to him,” Those behind this fresh assault will fail as I have nothing to do with the robbery incident or any criminal matter for that matter. I am aware that following a request made by the Police on June 13, 2018 to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) of the Federation, he had written a legal advice dated June 22, 2018, in which he stated on page 5, paragraph (f) that, ‘For the Senate President and the Kwara State Governor, this office is unable to establish from the evidence in the interim report a nexus between the alleged office and the suspects’.
“The Police have obviously corrupted and politicized their investigations into the Offa robbery incident. They have turned it into an instrument for the party in power to suppress perceived opponents. The Police in their haste to embarrass me sent the invitation to me at 8pm and requested that I report to the station by 8am tomorrow (today) morning. This obviously demonstrated their desperation as I do not see why they are now in a hurry.
“They also stated in today’s (yesterday) letter that because in my response of June 7, 2018 to their own letter written on June 4, 2018, I stated that I was responding simply to the contents of the letter and that the full text of the statement made by the arrested suspects which they claimed indicted me was not made available to me, they were now including the suspects’ statements in the current letter. Yet, instead of including the suspects’ statements, they only attached two copies of my own letter to the invitation. No suspects’ statement was made available.
“This plot aimed at compelling me and my associates to stay in a party where members are criminalized without just cause, where injustice is perpetrated at the highest level and where there is no respect for constitutionalism is an exercise in futility and it will fail.
“Once again, my confidence in God and our judicial system remains intact and unshaken. The truth shall also prevail in this case”.
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