Reports have emerged indicating that a pro-Senator Ahmed Lawan group are intending to strip Senate president and his deputy, Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu, of their positions held in the Nigerian Senate.
Ahmed Lawan
The group loyal to Senator Lawan, according to Vanguard, allegedly plan to“instigate the arrest of Saraki and Ekweremadu on spurious allegations or harass the Senate President to the point of yielding to the removal of his deputy at the plenary of the upper chamber”.
Senator Lawan was one of the favourites of the APC in the race for the Senate presidency position. The appointment of Saraki and Ekweremadu continues togenerate controversy, including the latest news of them being elected based on forged documents.
Moreover, last week’s invitation extended by the EFCC to Saraki’s wife, Toyin Saraki, over corruption allegations, has been named by sources as President Muhammadu Buhari’s involvement in the impeachment plot. Vanguard’s sources maintain President Buhari is seen as a tool to getting government’s support to use state apparatus, including the EFCC, the DSS and the police, against the Senate president.
However, Senator Joseph Waku of the APC, leader of Arewa Consultative Forum, stated it was Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu behind the petition to the EFCC to probe Saraki’s wife.
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