FRESH PLOT TO ARREST SARAKI AND EKWEREMADU, PDP ALLEGES

         The Peoples Democratic Party claims it has again uncovered a plot by the All Progressives  Congress and a group in the Presidency to use security agencies and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to invite, arrest and detain the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu. It also claimed it had unraveled fresh facts confirming that the pressure by the Presidency for the reconvening of the Senate was out of an alleged sinister motive and not for any emergency in the approval of the budget of the Independent National Electoral Commission for the 2019 elections.The former ruling party said in a statement by its spokesman, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Sunday that the alleged fresh plot to detain the two presiding officers was part of a renewed design to keep them out of circulation, ahead of Senate’s resumption.

     The detention of both, he said,  would enable those  he described  as  “the APC senators,” who he said were  in the minority, to present two of their members as Senate President and Deputy Senate President  on the excuse that Saraki and Ekweremadu failed to show up for proceedings in the Senate on Tuesday.He also alleged that the government was planning to use the EFCC to harass members of the families of the presiding officers of the Senate.

        Ologbondiyan added that the PDP was further informed that contrary to claims by the APC and the Presidency, INEC actually submitted the budget to the Presidency in February 2018, only for the Presidency to submit it to the National Assembly in July when the legislature was already going on recess; with a view to enmesh it in a needless controversy.He called on the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to stop acting righteous as Nigerians were aware that he was part of the actors behind the sordid developments playing out in the National Assembly.

      Ologbondiyan called on Nigerians and the international community to note the alleged activities of the APC and the Buhari Presidency, which he said had continued to put the unity and stability of the nation and democracy under serious tension. Ologbondiyan affirms that the PDP was  informed that contrary to claims by the APC and the Presidency, INEC initailly submitted the budget to the Presidency in February 2018, only for the Presidency to submit it to the National Assembly in July when the legislature was already going on recess; with a view to ensnare it in a needless acrimony.

      The spokesman, Mr.Kola Ologbodiyan called on the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to stop acting as a saint, saying that Nigerians were aware that he was part of the sordid developments playing out in the Upper Chamber. Ologbondiyan called on Nigerians and the international community to notify  the alleged activities of the APC and the Buhari Presidency, which  had continued to put the unity and stability of the nation and democracy under serious tension.