IGP Idris Wants To Detain Me To Prevent Mass Defection Of Legislators From APC – Saraki

BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki has said that the invitation extended to him by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris is a sinister plot to foreclose the plan by some Senators and House of Representatives members from defecting from the All Progressives Congress (APC). 

Saraki however said that his position on the 2019 elections is not a personal decision for him alone to make, stressing that it should be noted that all the concoctions and evil plots cannot deter him.

He noted that if he is detained between Tuesday and Wednesday, it is likely to abort the defection plan of the legislators.

Saraki who stated these in his Twitter handle explained that he has been reliably informed that the police invitation was a deliberate plot by IGP Idris to stop the plan by some Senators and House of Representatives members from defecting from the All Progressives Congress (APC).

According to Saraki; “It was also said that if I was detained between Tuesday and Wednesday, that will abort the so-called defection plan.

“While I continue to maintain that the issue of my position on the 2019 elections is not a personal decision for me alone to make, it should be noted that all these concoctions and evil plots cannot deter me.

“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 Senate President said the Police has obviously corrupted and politicized their investigations into the Offa robbery incident.

In his words; “They have turned it into an instrument for the party in power to suppress perceived opponents, witch hunt issue for blackmailing people from freely choosing which platform on which they want to pursue their ambitions and a matter for harassing the people whose exit from APC would harm the chances of the party in the forthcoming elections.

“I want to make it apparent that I have no hand in either the robbery incident or any criminal activity. 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 morning.

“This obviously demonstrated their desperation as I do not see why they are now in a hurry. They also stated in today’s 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 criminalised 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, “” Saraki emphasised.