Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, alleged yesterday plan by the Federal Government to implicate them and some of their colleagues in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Tuesday’s invasion of the National Assembly complex by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).
They said the alleged plan also entails sending them to jail as part of effort to remove them from the leadership of the Senate.
Saraki and Ekweremadu said in a statement through their media aides that the Presidency has constituted a panel to review the report submitted to it by Police Inspector General Idris Ibrahim on the DSS operation.
“The mandate of this closet panel is to turn facts on the head and blame the invasion of the National Assembly on the two leaders of the red chamber of the National Assembly, who will now be presented as having worked in tandem with the sacked Director General of the DSS, Mallam Lawal Daura, to stage the parliamentary security breach,” they said.
They added: “We have been reliably informed that instead of the Presidency to set up a public inquiry or judicial commission to probe last Tuesday’s early morning invasion of the National Assembly as being demanded by the general public, they have commenced a process of manipulation and fabrication.
“They want to shield the fact that the previous night before the invasion and up till the early hours of Tuesday, there was a meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) senators and that the plan was for them to be moved in a Coaster bus into the National Assembly complex later that morning for them to purportedly remove us and select a new Senate President and Deputy Senate President.
“Their plot only failed because the media, particularly social media, Nigerians and international community responded very swiftly as some legislators who came into the complex were refused entry by gun-wielding, hooded security operatives.
“Now, they want to turn the facts on its head and blame us for their botched plot against democracy. We are hereby alerting all Nigerians and members of the international community that the present Nigerian government will stop at nothing to destroy, suppress and incapacitate the opposition.”